Re: Present participle

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 60779
Date: 2008-10-10

On 2008-10-10 15:21, afyangh wrote:
>
>
> I have a question about this root :
>
> Number: 685
> Root: ghou̯(ē)-
> English meaning: to notice, pay attention
> German meaning: `wahrnehmen, Rücksicht nehmen auf'
> Material: Lat. faveō, -ēre, fāvī, fautum `bin
> gewogen, bin günstig,
> schweige beim Gottesdienst'; favḗre aus *fovḗre
> wegen umbr. fons
> `favēns', foner `faventēs' aus *fou̯enis;
>
> Would it be possible that a form like *ghwH1-ons- or *ghw-ons- could
> have existed in PIE ?
> That is to say like fav-ê-ns but with -o-.
>
> Thx

LIV derives <faveo:> from the root *dHew- 'run, hasten' as its
iter./caus. *dHow-éje/o- (= Skt. dHa:váyati), which gives a better
formal fit than Pokorny's derivation. Lat. /a/ before *-w- is due to
Thurneysen's/Havet's Law. A PIE present participle would have been
derived not from the secondary verb stem, but rather from the athematic
root present *dHé:u-ti/*dHéw-n.ti (thus in LIV, where it is
reconstructed as an acrostatic Narten verb). One would expect something
like *dHéwonts/*dHéwn.t-, whereas Lat. fave:ns is of course based
directly on <faveo:>.

The colour of the vowel of *-e/ont- in participles of athematic stems
depended on the accent pattern. Acrostatic verbs had unaccented
*'-ont-/'-n.t-, while mobile roots had *-ént-/*-n.t-', added to the nil
grade of the root (as in *dr.k^énts/*dr.k^n.tós from *derk^- 'watch').
Present participles of thematic stems are younger (apparently post-PIE),
and seem to have had an unchanged thematic *-o- before the *-nt- ending
in all case-forms (*bHér-o-nt-). Needless to say, the original
distribution was later disturbed by all sorts of analogical changes.

Piotr