Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61584
Date: 2008-11-13

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...

> On 2008-11-12 21:34, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
>> H1 can cause aspiration, a good example is pHol "to fall" < pH1ol Cf.
>> Chamito-Semitic paxid "to fall"
>
> One of Pokorny's more questionable roots; but this time it's the LIV
> that has a _real_ monstrosity: *peh3lh-, "mit ungewöhnlicher
> Wurzelstruktur, die aber vom einzelsprachlicher Material vorausgesetzt
> wird". Ungewöhnlich indeed, to the point of being somewhat unglaubwürdig.
>
> Piotr
>
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How does the LIV reach the conclusion *peH3lh is adequate ?

A.