Talk:ταλασίφρων

talasis?
This noun seems to imply the existence of a noun "talasis" or something similar. Is any such noun attested? —CodeCat 23:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * : There's, but no in the LSJ at least. The adjective  doesn't have quite the right form or meaning. I'd expect it to yield  with the meaning "miserable(-hearted)". So there doesn't seem to be a very clear origin for the first morpheme. — Eru·tuon 00:08, 6 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I'd love if you could explain something else. I don't understand how yields . If it was zero-grade, I would've expected . Is there some condition that causes a syllabic sonorant near a laryngeal to change into a vowel-sonorant sequence rather than just a sonorant? — Eru·tuon 00:45, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, syllabic sonorant + laryngeal yields a sonorant + long vowel. The quality of the vowel is determined by the laryngeal. So tl̥h₂ would give tlā. —CodeCat 00:59, 6 April 2016 (UTC)