On 2008-03-25 12:33, fournet.arnaud wrote:
> asgwrn is bone not eye.
You misunderstood what Miguel was saying. <asgwrn> is part of the
evidence for *a in 'bone' (so are, e.g., OIr. asna 'rib' < *h2ast-n-io-,
Gk. astrágalos 'knuckle'). He meant that Arm. akn was equally good
evidence for *a in the 'eye' word. I don't quite agree with that, since
a prothetic vowel from vocalised *h3 is possible in the Arm. word (if
from *h3(o)kW-mn- [cf. Gk. ómma], with a generalised weak stem).
> It seems competent people like Pokorny and Meillet
> are ok with Armenian being from H1okw.
Pokorny and Meillet reconstructed it as *h1okW-??
Piotr