Talk:erbaid

Pedersen (1913) is hardly current in the field of IE studies, is it?

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 *h₂erb^h- and the o-coloring *h₃erb^h-, 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)