s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 62794
Date: 2009-02-04

I was wondering if such s-stem words could be derived from PIE, or be just innovations or s-extensions. There's a bunch of matches that seem to be IE-widespread, like *nebHos (Greek nephos=Hit napash=Skt nabhas=Slav nebo) and *g^en(h?)os (genos=genus=janas). Greek has a long listmof words including abstract nouns (takhos, me:kos, brakhos), animal names (ke:tos "sea monster", te:thos "oyster", selakhos "shark", temakhos "fish sliced"), natural phenomena (skotos, khaos, nephos).
The examples of genos and menos were the simplest constructions: nouns derived from verbal roots with s-suffix (gen(h)-os, men-os), but in another examples the suffixation seems to be more hard to explain. Temakhos seems obviously derived from *temh-" to cut, but with an ending that not seems regular in Greek (kh<h?)

Latin is also full of such names (genus, munus, foedus, scelus, etc), but I don't know about Celtic examples, probably they existed too.
JS Lopes


De: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 4 de Fevereiro de 2009 12:47:59
Assunto: [tied] Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@.. .> wrote:
>
> I'm gathering examples of s-stems in Germanic and Slavic. Could
anybody give me more examples?
>
> Germanic (Gothic)
> sigis, agis, hatis, skathis, rimis, ahs, *lambas-, *landas-, *skinTas-
>
> Slavic
> nebo
>

Germanic s-stems have plural -er in German (and -eren in Dutch).
Here's a list of some:
http://tinyurl. com/b53k9k
plus eg. Amt, Ämter "public office"

Torsten



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