Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:06:35 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>[mcv]
>As Meillet says, the root is <s(y)u:->, with long <u:>. The
>only source of <u:> is <uH>. It must be specifically *h1
>because the verb is in the Balto-Slavic barytone accent
>paradigm while from oxytone *sjuh1-jé-. The retraction of
>the accent was caused by Hirt's law, and I believe Hirt's
>law did not affect sequences of resonant + *h2/3 (cf. Slavic
>bylá < *bhuh2-láh2, pilá < *pih3-láh2).
>
>
>Now, I suppose this retraction is only baltic
>so I mean Baltic should have
>maintained a distinction
>between the different H down to a very
>close period.
>It's difficult to believe.

If it were only Baltic I would have said Baltic and not
Balto-Slavic.

It's no more difficult to believe than that the same
distinction was maintained in Greek, Armenian and Tocharian,
where *ih2/3 and *uh2/3 yield *ya(:) [~ *yo(:)] and *wa(:)
[~ *wo:], but *ih1 and *uh1 yield *i: and *u:. This soundlaw
was discovered in 1970 by E.D. Francis and independently in
1977 by R. Normier.

In Balto-Slavic, we must have had:

1) sjuh1-láh2- > sju:lá: > sjú:la: [Hirt] > CS s^i"la
2) bhuh2-láh2 > bhu&-lá: > bu:lá: [no Hirt] > CS bylá
3) pih3-láh2 > pi&-lá: > pi:lá: [no Hirt] > CS pilá

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