Re: bhosos

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 63738
Date: 2009-04-03

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2009-04-03 20:20, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > But I saw in this scanned page an /n./ not an /m./ ...
> > Where you have find teh m. spelling? m. is also in Pokorny...
>
> <m.> (anusva:ra) indicates the nasalisation of the preceding vowel,
> which is how all underlying nasals are realised before a fricative in
> Sanskrit. <n.> (the retroflex nasal) does not occur in this position.
>
> Piotr


So the reconstruction is PIE bHVs-m-so- > Skt. bhám.sas?

Thanks again,
Marius