Re: Brugmann's Law

From: Mate Kapović
Message: 51286
Date: 2008-01-15

On Uto, siječanj 15, 2008 7:05 pm, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Brugmann's Law
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>> On 2008-01-15 17:29, Mate Kapović wrote:
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>>> A question on Brugmann's Law. It is widely known that sometimes there
>>> is
>>> no Brugmann's Law in Sanskrit when we would expect it and this has to
>>> be
>>> explained in various reasons.
>>> Mayrhofer's solution is that Brugmann operates only in front of
>>> *m/n/l/r
>>> but I find that impossible since we have forms like acc. pá:dam, nom.
>>> pl.
>>> pá:das, nom. pl. gá:vas etc.
> =========
> What is the vowel in Pok 700 manu / monu "man" ?
>
> I suppose it has already be discussed !?

Vedic mánuš can be *menus, since *monus would yield **ma:nuš. Although
both Gothic manna and Slavic moNžI point to *mon- (or *man-).

Mate