Re: Slavic neutra ending -o

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 31851
Date: 2004-04-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> I'm afraid this reopens an old can of worms. I see two mutually
> exclusive ways of accounting for the stem-formation *-ru-:
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Thank you for the very interesting comments. While we are on that,
what do you think of Sl. *z^irU 'generous fare' (< 'life'?) < *gWiH
(3)-ru- (?) < *gWiH(3)- 'live' and *pirU 'feast' < *peiH-ru- (?) <
*peiH- (or is it just *pei-, without laryngeal?) 'be nourishing' or
*pih3-ru- (?) < *pih3- 'drink'? Does it seem possible they belong to
the a.p. c and the u-declension as well? If so, what mysterious is
about that *-ru- that it causes mobility?

Sergei