Re: [tied] Whence Grimm?

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 31663
Date: 2004-04-01

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 23:33:15 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>01-04-2004 19:16, Brian M. Scott wrote:
>> At 4:47:11 AM on Thursday, April 1, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>BTW the names 'Sciri' and 'Bastarnae' are good evidence
>>>that these peoples spoke some type of Germanic. And the
>>>word 'saddle' (PGmc *saðula, cf Slavic sedlo, Latin sella
>>>< *sed-la) which because it is different from what we'd
>>>expect in an inherited Germanic word (cf. Geraman Sattel
>>>"saddle", Sessel "seat") must be a loan.
>>
>>
>> Not the only possibility: Watkins suggests the possibility
>> of a suffixed o-grade *sod-dhlo-.
>
>Unlikely. The instrumental suffix is not added to the o-grade;

What about zero-grade?

*sd-tló- > Gmc. *sát-dla- (with schwa secundum and Verner) >
*saddla- > saðula.


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