From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55852
Date: 2008-03-24
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Slavic is from PBS *g(^)waigzd-(ij)ah2 (Lith. z^vaigzde:~,
OCS 3vêzda, Pol gwiazda, from the PIE root *g^hwoigW- "to
shine" (Grk. phoibos).
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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*g(^)waigzd-(ij)ah2
looks like a kind of reduplication.
*g^hwoigW < *Coi-C-
This may explain some oddities about *g(^).
Now as regards Greek phoibos
Chantraine never accepted the connection
of phoibos with these BaltoSlavic words on account
of semantics in old Greek,
Pure water, aphiktros "dirty"
It only remotely matches "star or shining" meanings.
He mentions and rejects Frisk or Pokorny's theories.
Pokorny for Greek : 118 and 495 (double citation !)
Cf Pok 495 *g^hwo(H)-kw
The root looks like *g^hw_H2-
H2 is not glottal stop
because Lt is z^va~ke (-k-unvoiced)
I think it's &ayin. (Chinese again...)
I will add that if it's actually a reduplication
of *g(^)hw_H2.2- (and it very much looks like that)
we should expect **poiphos in Greek.
Arnaud
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