Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')



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> The above doesn't even resemble a valid argument. Even if NC _were_ part
> of IE (and there's no earthly reason to believe that it is), it couldn't
> by itself tell us anything about distinctions made in PIE. Anyway, you
> are attacking some sort of straw man. I never said the root */h3ekW-/
> had 'face' as one of its original meanings. 'Face' is one of the
> (several different) interpretations of the _compound_ *proti-h3kWo-. The
> _primary_ word for 'face, front' (or something like that) in PIE was
> *h2anti-.
>
> Piotr

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For whatever interest it may have, I believe *Ha(:)nti- can be analyzed as

*Ha, 'forehead' + -*n, 'thing' = 'forehead'
+ -*to = 'front'; + -y = 'thing pertaining to the front' = 'face'

The earliest morpheme for 'face' per se appears in PIE as *g^he-, e.g.
in *g^her-.


Patrick

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