On 2008-12-21 15:01, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> By the way,
> you still have not answered my little question about H1 in tomH1os.
> I'm still interested.
Sorry, I must have missed the question. Do you mean, how do we know
there's an *h1 at the end of the root (*temh1-)? The chief witness is
Greek, where e.g. the verbal adjective is *tme:tós < *tm.h1-tó-. If the
root were simply *tem-, we would get +tatós < *tm.-tó-. There is also
some extra-Greek evidence -- reflexes of the nasal present
*tm.neh1-/*t(m)n.h1-, but they don't indicate a particular laryngeal.
Piotr