[tied] Re: *-tro-/*-tlo-

From: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Message: 49122
Date: 2007-06-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> The contrast between the adjectives <riktá-, uktá-> and the
> nouns <riktHá-, uktHá-> is surely somehow significant.

Perhaps the analogical model is the type seen in Avestan ptc. da:ta-
'put, fixed', n. 'rule, law' as opposed to the vrddhi formation
da:tha- 'adherent to the law, follower'. They would be originally
*dh&1-tó- and *dheH1-to- > *dhetho- respectively, where the results
would have /t/ in the adjective and /th/ in a nominal derivative. Both
would have subsequently restored the root *dheH1-. - For ukthá-, there
is also the possible model of *wr.thó-, continued in Lat. verbum and
OE word from underlying *wr.H1-tó-, the ptc. of the verbal root *werH1-
seen in Gk. eíro: 'speak', rhé:to:r 'speaker'. This is of course mere
guesswork, not any kind of proof.

Jens