[MTLR] Re: The paradox of the Basco-Caucasian hypothesis

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

>
> 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

There is Dorict tma:tos, also témakhos 'slice of meat' (témenos
shows assimilation of short V that can come from V of any origin), so
*temh2- in this notation seems better.