Re: Indo-European *es-

From: "Jesse Bangs" <jaspax@...>
>On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:36:53 -0500 "Johnson, Anna"
><AJohnson@...> writes:
>> Muke wrote: "Well, for Indo-European languages, the main verb was
>> *es-"
>>
>> ... actually, it was *Hs; the H surfaced as /e/ in late Common IE in
>> certain
>> clusters, but as [zero] in others, hence the distinction in, say,
>> Latin
>> between 'est' and 'sunt', both of which come from *Hs- plus ending.
>
>According to Sihler's _New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin_, it
>was actually *Hes-.  I forget which laryngeal he has.
*1 - the "uncolored" one.  (AHDIER confirms it.)

*1es-ti  > *esti
*2es-ti  > *asti
**3es-ti > *osti

so *1 would be expected anyway.

[Yes I have a habit of just writing just the number (in small print if possible)
as *p2ter instead of *pH2ter.]

    *Muke!

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