From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 57736
Date: 2008-04-20
> Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/44331>
>> (2) Even assuming for the sake of the argument that the
>> root was for some unknown reason extended with *-h2 in
>> PIE (or an epenthetic vowel independently in Indic and
>> Greek) before the agent suffix, we still can't accoun for
>> the Greek form in this way. Gk. tHugate:r can only
>> reflect *dHugV-, certainly not *dHugHV- (which would have
>> given +tukHate:r). This shows very clearly that
>> 'daughter' and 'milking' are unconnected.
> So why then does <duhitâ> have <-h-> if the Greek form can
> only reflect *dHugV- and not *dHugHV-? Shouldn't Sanskrit
> then have *dugitâ instead?