Re: Gmc. w-/g-, j-/g-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:


> > This uvular R usually > r in historical Gmc. Also, at:
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> > http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/piep07.html
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> > Winfred P. Lehmann, when discussing OHG r-preterites says: "The sequence assumed here for seventh class verbs is PIE /eXw/ [eXu], for first class verbs /yX/ [iX]. I suggest that in these sequences the laryngeals were preserved, and that their reflexes fell into the OHG r-phoneme."
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> > (note: Lehmann uses X to symbolize any "laryngeal"; I use it for the uvular fricative)
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> >
> > He's on the right track, but only xW > XW and x() > X() by w, etc., underwent it, and only optionally X>R>r (scrían is probably from onom. * sqRiX- w/in Gmc, and has nothing to do with PIE yx).
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> Let's examine each group to see where Lehmann makes his mistakes:

In stózan, steraz \ stiriz \ etc. (pt 3s) = push\etc. OHG; the reduplication shifted to make every form start w st-:

*
sestud+
stesud+
stezud+
stizud+
stirud+


Lehmann rejected reduplication as the cause because he started w * stestud+ and said, correctly, that dis. of st-st > st-s was unlikely. Of course, there's no reason to start w * stestud+ since no IE supports PIE reduplication of C-clusters.


The -u- underwent opt. changes as described before.


A similar expl. for most w s-.


They differ from those in which X>R by form, etc. The -r- here is in addition, not replacing a C.