Talk:erbaid
Latest comment: 2 months ago by Mahagaja in topic Pedersen (1913) is hardly current in the field of IE studies, is it?
Pedersen (1913) is hardly current in the field of IE studies, is it?
[edit]This etymology should be considered for an update by an expert.
Admittedly as a non-expert, it seems to me that if all of these roots (Proto-Celtic *erb-(y)o- ‘entrust, leave (after death)’, *orbo- ‘heir, inheritor’—both from the EDPC—and other IE cognates) derive from the non-coloring laryngeal *h₁erbʰ-, then is it not unreasonable to think that various shades of meaning and reflexes could have started to separate via the a-coloring *h2erbh- and the o-coloring *h3erbh-, with the basic non-colored semantics beginning at "change/move status"? Perhaps it's actually ultimately derived from *er- "to set in motion" (which, I don't know, may be way out there)? Farefeerfalling (talk) 17:15, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- The three laryngeals are completely different consonants. Roots don't shift around between them any more than they do between p, t, and k. —Mahāgaja · talk 17:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)