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

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 64157
Date: 2009-06-12

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2009-06-12 21:58, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Please read this:...
>
> Please read it yourself _carefully_. Rix proposes _only_ a metathetic
> restructuring of /CReH/ into /CeRH/, not the other way round or, for
> that matter, both ways.
>
> Piotr
>

I know, Piotr: the g^noh1-t- forms are still OPEN for debate.
But Rix also write 'metathesis' (not metathesis) recognizing a long path of restructurations , not a simple phonetic transformation
And I have the feeling that Rix has Only Opened the Path....

(like: 'what if, initially, PIE has only CREH- roots?' I know is only a pure supposition, or much simple "who knows what type-root was 'the first' one?" )

On the other hand, the semantism:

*g^neh3- 'to know' -> *g^noh3-t- 'clan'

...is not Ok, versus

*g^enh1- / *g^neh1- 'to beget' -> *g^noh1-t- 'clan'

(at least, not for me)

Marius

P.S. BUT *mnoh2-'eye > *monh2-'eye is CLOSED, isn't it?