Typology and the phonetics of laryngeals
petegray
petegray at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 4 15:41:03 UTC 2000
On this subject it's perhaps worth adding that the deh3 root shows forms in
Latin as if from a root *dew-, eg the subjunctives duim, duis etc.
Gerhard Meiser ("Historicher Laut- und Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache"
1998 section 122.3 ) says: An original aorist lies behind "duim "duis" etc.
(from do: give) < *dow-i- with suffix -i-, derived from the aorist stem
*dow- < *dewh (parallel form to the root *do:, PIE *deh3). The present is
found in Faliscan douiat (= det, "let him give").
Is this further evidence of the rounding of h3?
Peter
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