Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

At 6:15:06 PM on Monday, November 10, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:

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

[...]

> Jasanoff doesn't convince me.

*That* certainly puts him in excellent company!

[...]

>> There could be no original Brugmannian lengthening in
>> such roots as *h2weks- (= *hweg-s-),

> That's a possible generalization of an s-aorist of *awg-
> which is a class VI verb.

No, it's Class VII: *aukanã, *eauk, *eaukun, *aukanaz (ON
<auka>, <jók>, <jóku>, <aukinn>; Goth. <aukan>, <aíauk>,
<aíukum>, <aukans>).

Brian