From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 57770
Date: 2008-04-21
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From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:25 PM
Subject: [tied] dHal- root and The Celtic & Germanic Forms
I have question:
How the dHal- root 'blossom, green, sprout' (considered by some dHalh1-
), presents in Greek, Armenian & Albanian,
can fit with Celtic *dol- forms or the Germanic *diljaz forms?
As I know, a supposed a-root cannot have o-grades or nil-grades as
ablauts etc...
In this case should we consider a second root dHel- as Pokorny
supposed?
Even so, is Ok? to have in the same time a dHel- root and a dHal- root?
Semantically all these forms are to close, not to be considered under
the same root.
Phonetically I cannot see how they can fit.
Any feedback?
Marius
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Patrick:
My suggestion would be to consider the earliest root form *dhela:-, with
natural lengthened vowel.
This could have appeared and *dhlá:- and, with a stress-accent shift to the
root syllable: *dhél&-.
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