From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 55300
Date: 2008-03-16
>Miguel h3 in the word for 'duck'? Only to keep alive Olsen Theory?
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:20:35 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
> <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> >Another word for Piotr an Miguel is Skt a:ti' 'duck' < *h2nh2-t'i
> >(accented on final i)
> >
> >The reasonant is vocalized here not the laryngeal.
> >The nil-grade here showed us that very probable the accent was
> >originary on the last syllable
>
> Italic (*anati-), Germanic (*anitÃ-, *anutÃ-) and
> Balto-Slavic (*an"ti-) have full grade of the root, though,
> and therefore a vocalized laryngeal (*h2an&-tÃ-).
>
> The Greek form seems to be missing a laryngeal (*h2nh2-tÃh2
> would have given *anassa, like *h1nh3-mn(t)-' gives
> onomat-). Greek na:ssa must come from *n.h2-tÃh2 (we cannot
> tell if there was pre-aspiration, because -t-ja and -th-ja
> both give -ssa/-tta).
> Skt. a:tÃs, f. a:ti: "a kind of waterfowl" (exact meaning
> unknown) has also been connected with ON æ:ðr, Swe. åda f.
> `Eidergans' < Gmc. *a:di:- (see Pokorny). It can of course
> also come from *(H)n.H-tÃs ~ *(H)n.H-tÃh2, provided the
> laryngeal is *h3, as suggested by u-colouring in Germanic
> *anudi- (*h2en&3-tÃ-) and perhaps Slavic *an?tuh2.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...