Re: Lith. žinóti - why not a root g^neHH-?

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> What I want to say is that there are Plenty of Irregular Forms here:
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> Latin (g)no:sco:
> Albanian njoh
> Lith. žinóti
> Toch k~na-
> Hittite ganess

OE cnawan, Engl know
Brittonic -nou- < *-gnou-
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/ldvez_1.html

> MY QUESTION IS : WHY NOT A ROOT CREHH- g^neHH- here in place of
> g^neh3- ?
> WHY IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE a ROOT HAVING DOUBLE LARYNGEALS <CEHH>
> INSIDE?
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> I MEAN why not: *g^neh1h3- or *g^neh3h1- or something similar (
> *g^neHH) ?
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> *g^nHH-sk^e~o could count for (g)no:sco: or njoh and to explain
> this forms based on the regular zero grades R(z)-sk^'e~'o
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> *g^n-n(e)-HH-ti could count for žina: < žinóti regularly
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> etc...
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> Any feedback?
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> Marius
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How do you account for the -w- (and Latin, according to Møller, has *-oU- > *o:-) ?

Vasmer has a Russian znaxarI "Wahrsager, Zauberer" and says of the suffix, cf. z^itI ~ z^ixarI; the latter has no entry. Is -x- part of the root or of the suffix?


I propose derivation from a Weinberg adjective *gegnow-, cf. OInd 1,3 sg perf act jajña:ú from *jña:- "know".


Torsten