From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55833
Date: 2008-03-23
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
On 2008-03-23 22:14, fournet.arnaud wrote:
> Hmhm
> so the syllabication was
> *h2ow # i-h3 # n-o ?
No, *h2o.wih3.no- will do. The Francis-Normier breaking does happen in
compositional sandhi, cf. *proti-h3kW-o- > *protjo:kWo- > proso:pon
'face, countenance, looks'.
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How do you explain
Greek opi:pi-ô "to look at, to ogle at" ?
Not from *H3kw ?
I thought it was *H3kwi-H3kwi-ô
It should be opiôpi- ??
Arnaud
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> Another question :
>
> About khelo:ne: "tortoise"
> Is there Hoffman's suffix in this word ?
> or it's another formation ?
Perhaps. It might belong to the type of Gk. Dió:ne:, Skt. Indra:n.í:-
'Indra's wife', etc., which has been analysed as involving the Hoffmann
suffix. But the details would have to be sorted out.
Piotr
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I suppose you don't want
macro-comparison to intrude
into your kingdom,
but I can't resist to state again
that one of the H3 is *m?
and I invite you to compare
H3okw
with
Chinese mu4 "eye" < *mhuk
This initial is not a standard voiced m.
Note that
Burushashki has moko "face"
which Starostin compares with Chinese
B.does not look that much PIE
with its retention of *m? instead of H3.
Arnaud
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