Re: bhosos

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 63739
Date: 2009-04-03

On 2009-04-03 21:14, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

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

No. First of all, the Skt. stem is consonantal, i.e. it reflects an
*-os/-es- stem without a final *-o-.

Secondly, an interconsonantal *m would have been syllabic in PIE, and
PIE *m. (not to be confused with Skt. anusva:ra) gives Skt. /a/.

Thirdly, even if corrected to *bHVsmes-, the reconstruction doesn't
work, since *-sm- does not undergo metathesis in Sanskrit. Cf. {bHas}
'chew', hence <bHásman-> 'chewing'.

Piotr