On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 11:48:51 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
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piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>There are other examples, e.g. *ten-, *tend- 'extend, stretch', *k^weit-, *k^weid- 'glitter; white, shining', *sal-, *sald- 'salt', *kau-, *kaud- 'strike, hew', etc. Of course if the *d-extension has been a productive process in PIE, we'd call *-d- a suffix.
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And of course it's not just -d. Any PIE consonant can act as a root extension.
Just go to
http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl/, look for the IEW, and do a search on
"Erweiterung". The first two pages (out of 20), mention the following
extensions: -d, -dh, -t, -g, -gh, -gW, -k, -n, -w, -y, -s (plus mention of
Dentalerweiterungen, Labialerweiterungen and Gutturalerweiterungen).
Of course one can say that Pokorny was rather fond of these extensions (if only
to reduce the number of lemmata in his IEW), but it remains an undeniable fact
that there are many simple roots, especially of the shape CeR, that form
semantic clusters with roots of the shape CeRC, where the last C is any stop or
*s. The process that caused this certainly predates PIE (otherwise, as Piotr
says, we'd be calling the extensions suffixes), and we can see more or less the
same phenomenon in other "Nostratic" language groups, e.g. in Afro-Asiatic,
where the standard Semitic triliteral roots (CCC) correspond with biliteral
roots (CC) in other AA languages.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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