Indian perfume set.

Rory M Larson rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu
Mon Oct 6 18:22:49 UTC 2003


>> I think Bob has answered my question.  So
>> pre-verbal u- in IO is in fact the same locative
>> prefix as MVS o- and OP u- ?

> Yes.  The initial *o- > u in IOM is/was originally
> a strictly phonological change.

I should add that this fact makes it quite possible
that the IOM /pyubraN/ - OP /nubdhaN/ set is indeed
from proto-MVS as John originally suggested, rather
than a later garbled loan from IO to OP as I
hypothesized yesterday.

Rory



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