PIE *(H)nā̆s- or (H)n(e)H(e)s- ‘nose’?

✍ Scribed by Woodhouse, Robert

• Book ID: 111893934
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: Italian
• Weight: 404 KB
• Volume: 116
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-7262
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110239485.29

✦ Synopsis

The slender Vedic support for the anlaut laryngeal now usual in reconstructions of the PIE 'nose' word is nevertheless found to be adequate. A parallel is developed to settle the disputed Vedic outcome of *HnHV-; this supports an essential feature of the ill-referenced "non-*a" reconstruction by Michiel de Vaan. An inessential feature of this reconstruction due ultimately to Robert Beekes is found to be misattributed by several Leiden Indo-Europeanists to Frederik Kortlandt; it is argued that Kortlandt's reconstruction should be reinstated as the superior basis for later work. In the process, an example of *HnHC-> Latin nǎC-is presented.

Beekes' scheme Beekes' example Kortlandt's 'nose' nom. sg. CéC-R(-s) *h 2 éu-i-s 'bird' *néh 2 -s-s acc. sg.