Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/gʷelbʰ-

@CodeCat Shouldn't this be at nom. sg. form? I don't know enough PIE to move it myself. Thanks. —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 18:12, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

IIr. forms

@माधवपंडित, Aryamanarora, something's wrong with the IIr. forms. If they had *e-grade, we'd see palatalization. So there must be different grades at play. —JohnC5 04:35, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

@JohnC5: Whoops, that passed by me. Just out of curiousity, would *gʷolbʰ-ós work? Or would the root itself need to be changed? -- mādhavpaṇḍit (talk) 05:44, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

@माधवपंडित: I fixed it up. —JohnC5

@JohnC5: Thanks for that! I can only find Sanskrit gárbha though (with accent on the stem). —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)}

@Aryamanarora: Yeah, I'm a goofus. —JohnC5 06:48, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

@JohnC5: Thanks!! -- mādhavpaṇḍit (talk) 08:26, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

What's going on with the Greek form(s)?

I know it's based on Beekes, and Beekes knows his stuff, but I'm wondering what the cause of the δ- in Anlaut is for the Greek forms. Wouldn't we expect a β- < *g^w- (like βαίνω < *g^wem-)? What am I missing here? Vindafarna (talk) 16:18, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Labiovelars always turn into dentals before front vowels. βαίνω is from the zero-grade, hence *gʷm instead of gʷem, and syllabic nasals usually become /a/ in Greek. —Soap— 22:21, 30 May 2023 (UTC)