From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60487
Date: 2008-09-29
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Arnaud Fournet" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> To start with, I think such a thing like -tl- is
>>>> impossible in PIE.
>
>>> From *stelh2 'broad(en)' (Pokorny #1885 pp1018-9) we have
>>> Latin _latus_, _la:tus_.
>
> stel&- To extend. (Oldest form *stel&2-.) Zero-grade
> form *stl.&-. 1. Suffixed form *stl.&-to-. LATITUDE;
> DILATE, from Latin <la:tus>, broad, wide.
>
> Brian
>
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ok,
but the problem is Baltic has *e grade in some words.
Hence
there was no reduction to stl- in PIE.
*stel- existed and maintained -l- in the root structure.
And this root is *st_l_H2
It does not refute my statement that
tl-(vowel) is impossible in PIE and changes to -tr-(vowel).
I agree that LAtin la:tus < stleH2-tos is not far from target
but Baltic stel- exists.
Arnaud