From: Tavi
Message: 66840
Date: 2010-11-04
>Yes, that's right. But now I think *leudh- comes from PNC *liwdK\E/*dK\iwlV 'man, male', with PNC *dK\ > IE *dh.
> > I think nobody has paid enough attention to the great similarity
> > between the roots *(H1)leudh- and *teut�Ha-, both meaning 'people'.
> >
> > The alternation between *l/*t could be explained as being different
> > reflexes of a former lateral affricate *tL. Starostin-Nikolayev's PNC
> > *HittL'i:wV(-l/V) 'root, seed; kin' would fit
> > nicely here.
>
> Except your previous PNC/IE isoglosses [as seen on the Nostratica list] have had velars corresponding to geminate *ttL', not dentals/laterals.
>