indoeuropean/hand

[Gordon Selway]

At 10:15 am 29/6/1999, Rick Mc Callister wrote:

>It's an interesting metaphor

>I was also interested in why the "masculine" form manus and not *mana?

Various answers, or points of departure:

a.  it's a u- stem, not an o- stem
b.  there are several other grammatically f u- stems (domus, quercus &c)
c.  common enough with o- stems in Greek (hodos, nesos ktl)

Gordon
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