Domesticating the Horse

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Miguel and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <mcv at wxs.nl>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 6:56 PM

> "Patrick C. Ryan" <proto-language at email.msn.com> wrote:

>>>> By the way, Pokorny lists *u.lkwi: for 'female wolf'.  Where do you get
>>>> *ulkwiha?

>> [MCV]
>>> For <ha> read <h2> (or <A>).

[PRp]
>> Well, yes, we could *assume* that it is a case of utilizing both formants
>> in combination, but how do we know?

[MCV]
> I merely assumed a transcription error (for h-sub_a or something
> like that).

[PRp]
>> Could it not equally well be *u.lkwiH1- or *u.lkwiH3-?

[MCV]
> With i: < iH and u: < uH one never knows.  Or does one?  Let me
> refer to Jens E. Rasmussen's article "IH, UH and RH in
> Indo-European".  (Abstract: Greek, Tocharian and Armenian show
> ih1/uh1 > i:/u:, ih2/uh2 > ya:, wa:, ih3/uh3 > yo:, wo:, with
> exceptions).  Greek -ia(:) therefore points to *-ih2.

[PR]
I like Jens' resolution.

But what is the significance of Greek -ia(:) for this question?

Pat

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