From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 57005
Date: 2008-04-07
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] RE: Priimary Stem Formants: =*H, -*i/y, *-u/w
> On 2008-04-07 20:06, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > No Meaning?
> >
> > when
> > dHeh1- means 'to set, to place'
> > dHeh1-i- means 'to suck'
> >
> > in the above case the -i- seems to represent 'a liquid' here or
> > something that 'covers' 'a liquid' too...
>
> Another victim of the "monkey-help-die-begin" syndrome? There's no
> suggestion in Jasanoff (or anywhere else) that *dHeh1- 'put, place' and
> *dHeh1-j- 'suck' have anything to do with each other.
>
> Piotr
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I believe there is a god chance that they are the same word with a core
meaning of 'release':
*dheH-, 'release at' = 'put, place'; *dheH-, 'suck', 'cause to be released'.
Patrick
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