On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:18:49 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
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alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
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>I'm confused about different reconstruction of this PIE root
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>Beekes h2ei- Grk. ainumai
>(by the way the Greek verb is with long or with short u:?)
Short (it's aínumai, with recessive accent, as all Greek
verbs: if the /u/ had been long, it would have had to be
ainûmai [note that -mai counts as _short_, it's *-maj not
*-mai]).
>LIV reconstructs h1ai- (Grk, Hittite pa:i/pianzi etc...)
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>Adams for Tocharian reconstruct h4ei-
*h2 is not lost in Hittite between vowels, so *h2ei- is
ruled out (*pe-h2oi- would have given *pa(:)hi-, not pa:i-).
It's mainly a matter of ideology. If you don't accept PIE
"unmotivated" */a/, you have to accept */h4/ (or find some
other way around either the lack of <h> in Hittite or the
/a/ in Greek and Tocharian). If you do accept */a/, there's
no objection against a root *h1ai- (two of them, in fact).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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