--- alexandru_mg3 <
alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Sean Whalen
> <stlatos@...> wrote:
> >
> > Other examples of n^ include the imperfect nasal
> > infix (shown by n^+H > n^: > ni: in Sanskrit),
> potn^s
> > "master, lord", and poln^s "settlement, city".
> >
>
> You point has a good coherence trying to unify all
> the forms.
> However it's weak point is that you need to
> postulate add additional
> sound n^ in PIE.
This is only one of the many sounds I "add" to PIE;
most of them change into other sounds in the attested
forms of languages but leave traces in sound changes
before disappearing.
For example, *potn^s has fem. *potn^i:H and the adj.
*deptn^yos "powerless" < de-potn^-yo-s. With standard
*potis the forms with n seem to add n from nowhere.
The traces left by n^ include:
Slavic
potn^s
potn^is
podn^is
podyis
podis
podi
podI
Unless before a nasal at some point, t>d is
unexplained in Slavic.
In Avestan:
deptn^yo-
depc^n^yo-
dapc^n^ya-
daps^n^ya-
dafs^n^ya-
dafs^nya-
Without n^ t>s^ is unexplained. I leave out
intermediate forms where y>iy>y in the derivation that
have nothing to do with my point.
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