Re: [tied] Re: bake

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:54:09 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>But how do you explain OHG 'bacchan', 'bahhan' >
>NHG 'backen', 'bachen' and 'Bäcker' "baker" then? Low German
>influence?
>Greek 'pho:gein', Lat 'fo:veo' (< perf. fo:vi), German bu:k. It seems
>the o-grade is long. If the verb stem is *bH&g- < *bHh1g-, how does
>it ablaut?

*bheh1-g- ~ *bhoh1-g- ~ *bh&1-g-. The geminate is I suppose due to
regular assimilation of *gn/*ghn/*kn' > *gg > kk in an n-extended
*bhag-n- > *bakk-.

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