[SPAM] [tied] Re: Latin /a/ after labials, IE *mori

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 64041
Date: 2009-06-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > On 2009-06-05 01:08, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> >
> > > Why h2 doesn't belong to the stem? So based on what it wasn't simple
> > > gWenh2-?
> >
> > It does belong to the stem, but the stem is a complex one
> > (*//gWen-eh2-//). *//gWenh2// would have developed into *gWe:n with
> > "Szemerényi lengthening" and loss of final *h2, which however was older
> > than the loss of vowels in unaccented suffixes, and so was blocked by
> > the presence of an underlying vowel in *-(e)h2-, yielding *gWen&2 in the
> > s-less nom.sg.
> >
> > Piotr
>
> This is only a supposition....copy/paste from some articles
>
> What is the root here?
> What is the root semantism?
>
> Marius

and here the coopy/paste source:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=--ssbDUSJfIC&pg=PA505&dq=gwenh2+root+noun&lr=#PPA505,M1

Marius