Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-09-27 10:26, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
> > How do you get Latin tertius out of *trei ?
>
> *tri-ti-ó-, with a development of *-ri- into a secondary syllabic *

[r.]

> > er before a coronal (even in accented syllables). It's parallelled

by

> *tri-st-i- > *terstis > testis 'witness' (but Osc. trístaamentúd) and
> *tris 'thrice' (numerous cognates outside Italic) > *tr.s > *ters,

*terr

> > ter.
>
> Piotr
>

Not to mention <cerno:> cognate with Gk <kri:no:> (<*krinjo:) with the
originally perfect participle <certus> cognate with Gk <kritós>.

AJ