Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On 2008-03-26 19:07, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> I have at least three objections :
>
> 1. Where is the -p- of proso:pon
> in phersu ?

How do you know that the mural inscription from which we know the word
spells it out in full?

> 2. Attic is stressed on the first -o-
> I expect **prusup or pursup ?
> not phersu

"Accented" is not the same as "stressed". One would expect something
like *pVrusup[] in Etruscan, with initial _stress_; the Greek pitch
accent doesn't matter, nor does Etruscan preserve the original phonation
of stops in Greek borrowings. *pHerusup[] (with an anaptyctic vowel) >
*pHersup[] (with syncope) is quite thinkable.

> 3. Prosôpon is from proti-o:pon
> Doric does not make : ti > si
> We should expect **purtiup-
> from Doric settlements in Italy

Not *-otio:-, but *-otih3- > *-otjo:- > *-osso:- > -oso:- (as there's no
morphological boundary between *t and *j, -s- is the regular outcome).

Piotr