Re: [TIED] PIE ablaut (self-correction)

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 2624
Date: 2000-06-09

 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Subject: [TIED] Re: PIE ablaut

Sorry, I spotted two small mistakes in my own posting.
 

The participial *-ont-, the femininising *-ix- and many other suffixes also demanded a nil-grade base: *(h)i-ont- ‘walking’ (from *(h)ei- ‘go’), *(h)d-ónts ‘tooth’, gen. *(h)d-nt-ós (from *(h)ed- ‘eat’), *sm-i:x ‘one [f.]’ (from *sem-).

'Demanded' is an overstatement. Nil grade occurs in the oldest layer of such formations. Productively formed participles of thematic verbs, such as *bHeront- 'carrying' from *bHer-e-ti contain the e-grade allomorph, and younger feminines in *-i: (the devi: type in Sanskrit) just reflect the vocalism of the corresponding masculine.

*nep-tóm (gen.pl.) ...

Read *nept-óm, of course.

Piotr