From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55451
Date: 2008-03-18
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Melchert has *poh3s- > pass- "swallow" and *pah2s- >
pahs(s)- "protect" (p. 77). Hittite wouldn't show the
difference between /oh3/ and /ah2/, but *h3 has a tendency
to disappear more often than *h2, as in this case.
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The H3 here is probably *m? > PIE w?
Cf. Semitic *pam "mouth".
? is not noted in Anatolian
Little wonder it "disappears".
Arnaud
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