Re: Mitanni and Matsya

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:25:28 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-04-06 00:15, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
>> 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-...
>
>That's why I suggest *wérh1os > *h1érwos > eûros (affecting the
>adjective by analogy). The same may have happened in the higher grades
>of the adjective, with regular full vocalism in the root.

Sounds plausible enough.

What do you mean by "higher grades"?

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