Re: [tied] More on the crummy sanguis/asrk connection

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5081
Date: 2000-12-15

A good point; I didn't think of ade:n. Plus, Latin re:n- 'kidney' may be from metathesised *negWH-r-o- > *regWH-n-o-
> *re:no- converted into a consonantal stem by nalogy to lie:n 'spleen',
which also accounts for the variant rie:n (Anttila 1972). Yes, it seems there are good arguments for divorcing *ngWen- 'gland, (swelling in the) groin' from *negWHr- 'kidney'.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] More on the crummy sanguis/asrk connection


>I can't see in what way these two are supposed to be parallel. The
> >alternation *-(e)n-/*-r in *negWHr- is restricted to the word-final
> >element. But in your hypothetical **h1esh2-r-gW- we have a >stem-internal
>alternation, and **h1sh2-an-gW-en- contains an extra >*-en (in addition to
>the one that alternates with *-r-) not found in >inguen- (which is an
>uncontroversial zero-derivative of *ngWH-en-).

Oh-oh, Piotr. Which is it? I just said that my dictionary is telling me
*ngWe:n because of Greek /ade:n/... Talk to me.