Re: Primary Stem Formants: =*H, -*i/y, *-u/w

On 2008-04-08 13:38, batinquo wrote:

> Something similar is on p932-5 of Charles de Lamberterie's book on the
> Greek -us adjectives, discussing presbus etc. Cf. his entry for eggus
> in the Chronique d'Étymologie Grecque 3, 1998:
>
> "-gWu-, degré zéro de *gWew- 'aller' ... on part d'une racine i.-e. à
> triple forme *gWem-, *gWeh2-, *gWew-, parallèle à *drem-, *dreh2-,
> *drew- 'courir'".

Thanks for the reference. I wasn't aware of it, which is a pity, since
it might have strengthened my argumentation. On the other hand, a
compound adjective like this may well contain *-gW[h2]-u-, with the
normal compositional loss (or at least non-vocalisation) of the laryngeal.

Piotr