From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57084
Date: 2008-04-09
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
> On 2008-04-08 16:26, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
>> Have the scholars who postulated an initial *H2 in *yeu-, 'young', by any
>> chance looked as *yeu-, 'mix'?
>
> There is no *jeu- 'young'. The surviving cognates show that *//h2jew-//
> was originally acrostatic (nom.sg. *h2óju, gen. *h2áju-s ~ *h2áiw-os,
> later also *h2jéu-s on the analogy of mobile (proterokinetic) stems. The
> verb root *jeu- has its vowel in a different interconsonantal slot and I
> don't know of any good evidence for an initial laryngeal.
> PG
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As is supported by Salish heyi "to be alive" and Arabic haya "to live"
where h is a glottal voiced fricative.
Arnaud
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> There is, admittedly, something onomatopoeic about *//h2weh1-// 'blow'
> and possibly *//h2enh1-// 'breathe', though the PIE status of both is
> guaranteed by their wide distibution and ample attestation. Actually, if
> a root is transparently imitative, it's likely to be relatively young,
> since the onomatopoeic effect diminishes over time as a result of sound
> change (Eng. wind or Fr. vent have practically lost it). But in
> principle the relationship between sound and meaning is arbitrary and
> there is no reason why the same *h2 should not have occurred in "watery"
> roots such as *//h2ep-//.
>
> Piotr
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As is supported by &_n_x "to breathe" in Egyptian.
and s._b "to flow" in Arabic.
Arnaud
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