Re: [tied] Re: IE and their dogs : long-haired sheepdogs

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From: Richard Wordingham
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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: IE and their dogs : long-haired sheepdogs


--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
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> From: tgpedersen
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> > in PIE as we know it. PIE "sun" has recently ecome heteroclitic,
it isn't in any known IE languages
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> What do you mean?

> I'd guess Torsten was referring to the reconstruction *sáh2wal., gen.s. *sh2wéls, *sh2úls, *sh2wéns or *sh2úns, given at item 18 in Miguel's account of PIE consonant stems at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/16501 . However, Avestan hvar&, g.s. xv&:ng looks heteroclitic.

So do Gothic forms. Even if this pattern of *-l/*-n heteroclisy is slightly untypical and may require a special explanation (such as the liquid-nasal cluster reconstructed by Miguel), what's "recent" about it?

Piotr