Re: Family terms [was: Kluge's Law in Italic?]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > W dniu 2012-02-21 21:29, dgkilday57 pisze:
> >

> > > Also <báthron> 'threshold, step,
> > > ladder', since it goes with <baíno:> 'I go, walk, step', has zero-grade
> > > of *gWem-, not a laryngeal-final root.
> >
> > *gWem- and *gWeh2- (Skt. pres. jíga:ti, Gk. aor. ébe:) etc.are
> > synonymous roots. Both are found in Greek, Armenian, Indo-Iranian and
> > Baltic (at least), so <báthron> could easily be analysed as *gWah2-trom
> > à la mode d'Olsen.
>
> But the acute accent requires a short vowel, so it must be zero-grade.
>

Are you unable to read what we've said many times? In Olsen's theory, h can disappear after t>tH. I don't think it's correct, but stop responding as if no one but you understands even the dif. between a and a: .


For Skt gá:tra-m = limb there's full grade and no t>tH, opp. of G báthron = base/pedestal; part of my reasons for saying there were opt. changes. In G báthron there's also the pos. of analogy creating new tH, based on the Ct : VtH complicated after C>V for syl. nasal C (sim. to that seen in *x+kos > -akhos , but analogy for a < *n in stóma = mouth, stómakhos = throat/gullet .