*-iH_2 [was Re: Domesticating the Horse]

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Rich and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard M. Alderson III" <alderson at netcom.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 6:55 PM

> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Pat Ryan (proto-language at email.msn.com) responded to my
> statement of the preceding day:

[RAp]

>>> The Greek outcome is especially interesting, since this is one of the few
>>> places where the laryngeals do not undergo fully parallel developments:  We
>>> find *i1 > _i:_, *i2 > _ia_, and *i3 > _iO:_.

>>> This last fact, of course, answers the question of reconstructing
>>> ?*ul{k^w}i1 or ?*ul{k^w}i3:  Were the suffix not *-i2, we would have a
>>> different outcome in Greek.

>> But *u.lkwi2 has no outcome in Greek, does it?

> Disingenuous.  The *suffix* in question has a number of occurrences, all with
> a short alpha.

> Note that there are occurrences of long alpha following iota, which are *not*
> reflexes of this suffix, and which therefore show that something else is
> going on here.

[PRp]

>> And the Greek outcomes look like:

>> -iH1 -> ie: -> i:; -H2 -> ia: -> ia; -iH3  -> -io:

[RA]

> I'm afraid not.  There is no evidence for either of your intermediate stages
> with regard to H_1 or H_2.

[PR]

What PIE suffixal form would you reconstruct for a Greek word like
so:te:ri'a:?

Pat

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