From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 55961
Date: 2008-03-26
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:26 AM
Subject: [tied] I, see, face, etc. [was: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')]
> Patrick Ryan pisze:
>
> > 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'
>
> Oops, I actually intended to write *h2ant- (preserved in Hittite as a
> root noun); *h2anti is its locative, meaning 'in front' --> 'opposite,
> against, before', etc.
>
> By the way, the roots */h2ent-/ and */h3ekW-/ meet in Latin anti:quus <
> *h2anti-h3kW-o-s 'appearing before' --> 'former, ancient'.
>
> Piotr
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It really does not make any difference.
-*y forms adjectives meaning 'pertaining to X'.
The same morpheme shows up as the genitive in PIE -*i in some languages, a
locative in -*i in others.
Its earliest use in the case system is probably as a genitive.
Patrick
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