Re: Mitanni and Matsya

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 56803
Date: 2008-04-05

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:22:02 -0500, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >Miguel, why do you think that a 'laryngeal' must be reconstructed in
> >*werH1-ú-?
>

<Miguel answered:>

> As Pokorny goes on to say:
>
> ai. vári:man.- m. n. `Weite, Umfang', várivas- n. `Raum,
> Weite, Behaglichkeit', die eine schwere Basis voraussetzen.
>

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Thank you for the prompt response.

I was aware of these but my assumption was that *wer-H- was an alternate
stem for *wer-.

I can easily see <várivas-> from *wer-H-u but <vári:man.> is past my
knowledge of Sanskrit.

It cannot be regular, can it?


Patrick

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