Re: PIE Word Formation (3)

But what is the reason behind this behaviour. I think we actually
see here a relict from a former period where many or all roots had
the form kvkv- and suffixes had one of the forms -k or kv / v-any
vowel, k= any consonant, and the accent was on the penultimate.

For the root kwon: we would then have this original state:

Nom.sg kwo`no, acc.sg kwo`no-m, gen.sg kwono`-sv

During the period of quantitive ablaut, this transformed to:
nom.sg kwon, acc.sg kwon-m, gen.sg kun-o`s

During this transformation, the ending wovel of the root: -o- , was
lost in the nom./acc.sg. In the gen.sg it was reinterpreted to be a
part of the ending.




--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Accent movement
> >
> > In the first approximation, the main principle of PIE accent
> movement is
> > quite simple: if a suffix or an inflectional ending containing a
> full
> > vowel is added to a base, it attracts the accent and the

vocalism

> of the
> > base is reduced. Thus, for example, the root *kWer- 'make'
> extended with
> > the present participle suffix *-ént- becomes *kWrént- 'making',
> and the
> > gen.sg. of this, with the ending *-ós, is *kWrn.tós. In the
> simplest
> > case, represented by root nouns and stems with an accented

suffix,

> > declension makes the accent move between adjacent syllables: the
> last
> > syllable of the stem (in the "strong" cases) and the

inflectional

> ending
> > (in the "weak" cases). This type of accent movement is called
> > HYSTEROKINETIC:
> >
> > nom. *p&2té:r *k^wo:n *dje:u-s
> > acc. *p&2tér-m. *k^won-m. *dje:-m (< *djeu-m)
> >
> > but
> >
> > gen. *p&2tr-ós *k^un-ós *diw-ós
> > dat. *p&2tr-éi *k^un-éi *diw-éi
> >
> >