Re: [tied] -tr-

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:08:08 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:

>But talking of *dr-w-, in 'Riget', that Danish movie of ghosts in
>hospitals (von Trier), they talk of a 'mane-træ', a (wooden) tool for
>controlling spirits of the dead. Which reminded me: '-træ' is used in
>Danish for wooden implements (<bold-træ> 'bat'), and I believe I saw
>a (dialectal?) Greek <doru> 'spear'.
>Question: Is *dr(-w) the same as *-tr-,*-tl- 'tool with which you
>...'?

I don't think so. The "tree/true" word has *d-, while the instrument
suffix has *-t (after laryngeal *th). Furthermore, the original form
of the suffix is *-tl-o-, with the variant *-tr-o- appearing only
after roots containing a liquid or ending in primary (*..s-tro-) or
secondary (*...T-tro > *...s-tro) */s/. See Birgit Olsen, "The
Proto-Indo-European instrument noun suffix *tlom and its variants"
(Det Kongelike Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filosofiske
Meddelelser, 55, København, 1988).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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