On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:21:30 +0200, Przemysław Ziobrowski
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pmva@...> wrote:
>This "probably" cames from the ToB where the root is given as *_(s)a-xl_.
>If Klimov or Fähnrich (or whoever made that reconstruction) hadn't doubts
>about that, he wouldn't use the parentheses (and the hyphen).
I don't know about Fähnrich, but Klimov uses the symbol *(s)
to denote a distinct PK phoneme, with correspondences Geo.
/s/, Zan /0/, Svan /l/ before a vowel, as in the "word
formation prefix" *(s)a- => Geo. sa-, Zan o-, Svan la-;
before a consonant we have Geo. r, Zan r/0, Svan l (as in PK
*(s)31e "milk": Geo. r3e-, Zan b3^a-/m3^a-, Svan l@3^e-).
I think it stands to reason that *(s) was something like /L/
(a voiceless lateral fricative).
Klimov's *(s)a-xl- "house" is derived from the verbal root
*xal- "to be near sth., among sth.".
>> Stop Zubrowska.
>
>Who's Zubrowska and why should we be stopping _her_?
Chyba miał na myśli żubrówkę.
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