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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> How to explain the -u- in Latin hu:ma:nus, humus, humilis, and Germanic guman
> (OE guma), if these words get back to *dHeg^Hom - root?
In P-Latin -o- was generalized throughout the stem.
Later opt. o>u just like e>i, etc.
PIE *gHd.ó:mH > P-Latin *hu:m and then an adjective
was formed from the generalized nominative just as
*bHo:r. > fu:r >> fu:rti:vus and sim. to *puxwó:r. >
*pwó:r. > *pu:r >> *pu:rnos > pru:nus 'live coal'.
The word for 'man' should have already been rec. as
*-mo:n in common theories, in which case Gmc m,>u/_m
would be reg.; moreover, it was actually *gHd.mWH-mYHó:n.
with opt. mW>w in other branches, like Celtic and Baltic.