From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 55344
Date: 2008-03-16
>Answered by Piotr: -a- is from *&2. I agree (pace
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>>On 2008-03-15 21:34, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>>
>>> What's the chain from
>>> dhugH2°ter down to kbatra ?
>>
>>Something like *dHug&2tr- > *dugatr- > *tuwatr- (cf. the HLuw. cognate)
>>> *twatr- > *tbatr- > kbatr- (cf. *dwi- > Lyc. kbi- '2').
>>
>>Piotr
>>
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>>It's fascinating to see that
>>the last vowel -a- comes out of *nothing*
>
>It's the feminine ah2-stem ending, cf. Lyc. wawa < *gWo:ws
>"cow", xawa < *h2owis "sheep", etc.
>Miguel
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>
>Thank you for additional information,
>
>My original question, answered by Piotr,
>was about the a in kb-a-tr.
>What does <x> in xawa stand for ?A (post-)velar voiceless fricative.