On 2008-12-23 01:50, stlatos wrote:
> 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.
Opinions are divided over this. Some authors prefer *temh2- and I've
seen <tma:tós> cited in support of *h2, e.g. by Sihler. Yet I have not
managed to find the source of this form and I suspect it may be a ghost
word. Does anybody on the list know a text in which it appears? What
does occur is Doric-looking <tetma:kei> and a few similar forms used by
Archimedes and several examples of <a(:)> in the conjugation of
<tme:go:>. They are so few that they could be hyper-Doricisms. LIV has
*temh1-, at any rate.
Piotr