Re: Mitanni and Matsya

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:50:10 -0000, "Francesco Brighenti"
<frabrig@...> wrote:

>--- 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>?

No doubt. One theory mentioned (but rejected) by Sihler,
would ascribe this to a special Greek development of *Hu- >
eu-, au- [, ou-] (*h1urús > eurús, *h2ug-s- > aux-).

If the traditional explanation is correct (metathesis of
*weru- > ewru-), we don't need an initial laryngeal here.
But what kind of form is *werú-? Can it be from *wrHú-? I
would expect *(F)arú- or *hurú-...

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