Re: On do/tun

> Slip-up wrt. the fourth form, I forgot the metathesis.
> dhégh-, dhédhow-, dhe:dh´-, ghdh-én-
>
> Interestingly, with a preverb, which would have taken the stress,
> the fourth form would become *´-ghodh-n.- -> *´-ga-dun, and with
> reinsertion of vowel (different in in German/Dutch and English) with
> secondary stress *´-ga-dá:n- and ´*-ga-dó:n-. This might have set a
> pattern for other PGerm ppp forms. Thus, the Germanic ppp. prefix
> *ga- might not be from *k^on- after all.

The longer I know it the more I like this metathesis.

Present sg, Schmalstieg-style
primary endings
*dhghom-i
*dheghs-i
*dheght-i
secondary endings
*dhghom
*dheghs
*dheght

metathesis and loss of unvoiced auslaut consonants
primary endings
*ghdhom-i
*dhe-i
*dhe-i
secondary endings
*ghdhom
*dhe
*dhe

cluster simplification, restoration of primary endings
primary endings
*dhom-i
*dhe-i-si
*dhe-i-ti
secondary endings
*dhom
*dhe
*dhe


And here's a really interesting one
*dhgho:m -> *gho:m ->go:m "man"
which is classic enough, but, with metathesis
*dhgho:m ->*ghdho:m -> *gdo:m ->gro:m "man"
which latter word is separately attested, outside of English, too.


Torsten