Re: Origin of reduplication, new idea.

From: tgpedersen
Message: 46901
Date: 2007-01-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-01-06 10:19, P&G wrote:
>
> > Since Latin Greek and Sanskrit consistently distinguish these roots...
>
> So do Baltic and Slavic languages, with 'give' and all its derivatives
> showing OCS a, Lith. uo < *oh3, and 'put, place' and its derivatives
> showing OCS e^, Lith. e: < *eh1. Of course in word-initial position
> reflexes of *d and *dH are not distinguishable in Balto-Slavic; still,
> the reduplicated present underlying OCS dez^doN, (O)Lith. 2pl. deste
> is *dHe-dH(h1)- with no Winter's Law, and so with *dH rather than *d.


BTW what are the rules for -dh- in inlaut in Latin?


Torsten