Greeek double u (was: PIE i- and u-stems again)

From: Sean Whalen
Message: 48213
Date: 2007-04-03

--- Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:

>
> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > Gk. huio:nós 'grandson' < *suh1ju-h3n-ó-, a
> > thematised derivative in
> > which the "laryngeal breaking" of *uh3 > *wo:
> > betrays the identity of
> > the laryngeal, or *h2ab-h3ó:n 'river', where the
> > voicing of etymological
>
> I'd derive it:
>
> huyuhunús
> huyuhnús (hap.)
> huyohnós (u- > o-stem)
> huyo:nós

Apparently this is a regular rule in Greek, similar
to Exxon's Law in Latin.

# V-u-u-V # > # V-u-0-V #

followed by rules simplifying the resulting clusters,
also somewhat sim. to secondary Latin rules.

C>0 / _[V>0] CC
CC>0 / _[V>0] C
stop>0 / _[V>0] stop


*sunYù+s suyù+ 'son'
*suyu+sunYù+s 'son's son' > *huyuhnús >
huio:nós 'grandson'

*kYóru 'extension, head, top'

*d.óru 'wood, tree'
*d.runYós ' " gen.'
*kYóru+d.runYós 'tree limb' >
korúne: 'club'

*tumYLó+s 'mound' > túmbos
*kYóru+tumYLó+s 'hill-top' >
kórumbos

*bhuxwó+ 'being (at)' > huper-phué:s
*kYóru+bhuxwó+ 'being (at) the top' >
koruphé: 'top, peak'

*fkuudh+ 'covering' > *kuth+
*kYóru+kuth+ 'head-covering' >
kóruth- kórus 'helmet'


There might be a sim. rule involving i-i, but ev. is
limited.




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