Re: Mitanni and Matsya

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<miguelc@...> wrote:

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

Others (M. Mayrhofer, A. Lubotsky) reconstruct _two_ laryngeals for
this PIE root:

OIA uru- 'wide, broad, extended, spacious' < PIIr. HurHu- < PIE
h1urH-u- (/H/ = an undetermined laryngeal).

S. Nikolayev (in the Starling databases) has PIE *(e)w[e]r-
'wide,broad'.

Is the reconstructed <*h1> due to the Greek form with initial <e>?

Regards,
Francesco