From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56766
Date: 2008-04-05
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
>
> Just a thought. Adjectival *-ró- is in close-to-complementary
> distribution with *-ú-, and some adjectives have both variants. Gk.
> árguros, Skt. árjuna- seem to be secondary -ro-/-no- extensions of older
> *h2r.g^-ú- (var. of *h2r.g^-(r)ó-), with an accented vr.ddhi vowel
> (whatever the details of the process that produced such an outcome). I
> wonder if, after all, we couldn't be dealing with a parallel derivative
> of *wrh1-ú- 'wide' --> *wérh1-u-no-: 'the wide (sky)' or the like.
>
> Piotr
>
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As a matter of that,
I was wondering if Chinese gui1 "tortoise"
somehow awkwardly reconstructed as *kwr-y
where y stands for dilabialized u
could not be a LW from *ghelu:
Cf. Greek khelo:ne:
I suppose we don't have "tortoise" in Tokharian, do we ?
Arnaud
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