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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> >
> Regarding laryngeals preventing *moCV- > *maCV-, I noticed that Greek has words like <mne:me:> 'memory, remembrance' which suggests that the 'think, remember' root was *menh1- or *menh2- (I don't know what LIV says about it).
> That could explain <mone:re> according to Marius'
> theory, as from *monHéje-.
> Andrew
Hello Andrew,
Is not my theory is Schrijver's one (*moCV- > *maCV-).
As I know there is no h in men- root => mon-eye
(and I don't know if *mon-h1-eye is imaginable)
But the fact that there are 2 *mane:re
*mane:re 'to remain' < *mon-eh1- and
*mane:re 'to warn' < *mon-eye
is enough to imagine a conservation or a restauration of the causative verb in o-grade.
I'm the first to be relunctant 'on analogies' (I remember Miguel's analogies in this forum) but here we really have 2 identical verbs (based on the phonetic rules) with a clear different semantism.
'to remain' versus 'to warn'.
And more or less is the single exception in (*moCV- > *maCV-)
Of course as for any Model, nobody knows what really happens in reality...
But the Model is better if it explains more than the others.
And the other Models introduced m&n- m&rei-, so each word is more or less an exception.
Marius