Re: [tied] PIE athematic neuters

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:15:12 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>> What I observe is that the -r has only survived in Armenian,
>> and has been lost everywhere else, including Vedic.
>>
>
>Is it possible to explain the Latin stems pecor-

pecus, pecoris is an s-stem (*pekos, *pekoses).

>and pecud- (< -nd- < -nt- ?) along these lines?

As far as I know, *nt/*nd does not give Latin /d/.
Perhaps the -d- in Latin is a weakening of /t/ in a
zero-grade environment (*pekwtos > *pekudos), sort of like
in *kWtwru- > quadru-. In that case, the t-stem and s-stem
might be variants of the same paradigm (something like
*pókut, *pekús-/*pékwt-). The connection with the n-stem is
more remote.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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