Re: [tied] Helios

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 45795
Date: 2006-08-22

Is there some example of *sH2wen- outside Germanic?

Joao SL

Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> escreveu:
On 2006-08-21 17:56, Daniel J. Milton wrote:

> The IE root for "sun" always struck me as surprisingly complex, at
> least in the disyllabic form, such as Watkins' *sawel-.
> Does seeing it as *sah2wl- change the situation?

It must have been morphologically complex once, and the most likely
morphological segmentation is *//seh2-wel- //, where the second morpheme
may be a variant of *-w(e)n/r-, forming heteroclitic deverbal nouns;
note the consonant alternation in *sáh2-wl., obl. *s(h2)-wén-, an
original neuter noun with the animate (personified? ) byform *s(h2)wó:l,
obl. *sh2ul-. Formally, it's parallel to *páh2-wr./*ph2- wén-,
*ph2wó:r/*ph2ur- 'fire'.

Piotr



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