Greek question & the pre-history of *nekwt

[Yoel L. Arbeitman]

The question is dealt with thoroughly in H. Craig Melchert Anatolian
Historical Phonology, both as to the verbal root neku- "become twilight"
and nekut- "night"/

	Yoel

At 10:04 AM 3/8/99 GMT, you wrote:
>mcv at wxs.nl (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) wrote:
>
>>The spelling <nekuz> stands for
>>/nekwt-s/.  The problem is that we would expect <nekkuz> if the
>>word is to be derived from PIE *nekwt- ~ *nokwt-.  The single <k>
>>suggests PIE *g(h)w.
>
>But I must agree with Rich's "moderator comment" elsewhere that
>in this case the spelling <ku> may reflect all of PIE *kw, *gw or
>*ghw [*gwh if you prefer].  After all, if the etymon were *kw,
>the geminate spelling should not be <kk> but <kwkw>, and there is
>no way of writing that in cuneiform (nor in ASCII, as the
>recurrent confusions about labiovelars show).
>
>=======================
>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>mcv at wxs.nl
>Amsterdam