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PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN ‘EAT’ AND ‘MOUTH’
PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN ‘EAT’ AND ‘MOUTH’

Author(s): Orsat Ligorio
Subject(s): Historical Linguistics
Published by: Институт за српски језик Српске академије наука и уметности
Keywords: Proto-Indo-European; Etymology; Glottalic Theory

Summary/Abstract: PIE *h1oʔ-s- (= *h1oh1-s-) ‘mouth’ is derived from PIE *h1ed- ‘to eat’, as an s-stem o-grade postverbal, assuming that *dC yields *ʔC (= *h1C), which is a well-known phenomenon of the Glottalic Theory.

  • Issue Year: 75/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 19-31
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English
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