Re: Kluge's Law in Italic? (was: Volcae and Volsci)

W dniu 2012-02-09 21:13, dgkilday57 pisze:

> The old suggestion that this word comes from *telh2-
> 'lift, raise' by dissimilation of *tl@-dHla: (ib. 91, questionably) can
> be discarded, since zero-grade would have given Italic *tla:- as in Lat.
> <la:tus> 'carried'.

Not as per Olsen, who claims that the laryngeal "preaspiration" was a
PIE phenomenon. The development of *l.h2 > *la: is of course dialectal.
One can therefore imagine something like *tl.h2-tlah2 > *tl.h2tHlah2 >
*t&tHlah2 (dissimilatory loss) > ... > tabula.

Piotr