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

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62283
Date: 2008-12-23

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] [MTLR] Re: The paradox of the Basco-Caucasian hypothesis


>
> 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
>
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Chantraine has neotma:tos in Theoc 7, 134.
And he does not choose between temH1 and temH2.

A.