Re: g^H: an older suffix in PIE adjectives?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>

wrote:

> >
> > There's a lot of PIE adjectives ending in -g^Hu. Is this a
> > relict of a "fossil" suffix?
> >
> > mrg^Hu- "short", bHng^Hu- "thick, fat", dHngHu- "fast?",
> > dHrgHu- "strong? hard?", h2ng^Hu- "narrow", lng(W)Hu-
> > "light" (cf. levis, elakhys, elaphros, light, if they are
> > related).

- edit -

> What are the "non-suffixed" counterparts for the others?

There is *dHen- "to run" that could conceivably work for
*dHengHu-, but looking through the dictionary I couldn't
find anything convincing for the others.

However the main problem is that there appears to be no
pattern from the start. Three of the cited roots end in
*g^H, a palato-velar, two in *gH, a plain velar, and one
in *gWH, a labio-velar.

So unless we want to talk about three different suffixes
here, we've seen no more than three examples of *-g^Hu-.

David