Re: [tied] tt/st/ss

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-06-10 21:48, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
> > Do you believe that this late anaptyxis would
> change
> > *-dlom > -dulum instead of a much earlier series
> of
> > changes including *-Cdtlo- > *-Cdelo-?
>
> *-dl- changed into Lat. -ll- without an anaptyctic
> vowel.

Yes, I mentioned that as more likely than
*dtl>ssl>:l before. However, I put *C there for a
reason; a much older rule that causes metathesis or
adds a V depending on what follows.

> Anaptyxis is
> regular in the clusters *-kl- (< *-kl-, *-tl-),
> *-bl- (< *-Bl-, *-Dl-)
> and probably *-gl-, sporadic in *-pl-. Perhaps forms
> like <sella,
> grallae, ra:llum> show the early spread of *-lo-
> replacing *-tlo- after
> *d. Forms with anaptyxis would then represent a
> still later stratum,
> with /u/ generalised from <speculum, cingulum>,
> etc.; this <-ulum>
> merged with the Lat. reflex of diminutive *-elo-,
> resulting in the
> etymological ambiguity of many words. To sum up, we
> have:
>
> ra:strum 'rake' < *ra:d-trom
> ra:llum 'scraper' < *ra:d-lom (pre-Lat. innovation)
> ra:d-ula 'razor' (latest and fully productive in
> Latin)

But the meanings suggest ra:dula is older (that is,
it's had time to develop a specific meaning different
than the verb), though I wouldn't argue from that
alone.



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