From: stlatos
Message: 68115
Date: 2011-10-19
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:Also, for Lehmann's "We may note that OHG scorra `crag', scorrēn `jut out' has an inexplicable double r. WP derive these forms from the root from which scrōtan developed but are unable to account for the lengthened r. Since it is clear from Skt. kr̥ṇāti that the base is /skerX-/, scorra seems to provide further evidence for the development of the reflex of laryngeal to OHG r." the sequence was r.x > Rx > RX > RR > rr (or similar), w the opt. r.>R (among others) then K>Q by Q, etc.
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > > > 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 (scrÃan is probably from onom. * sqRiX- w/in Gmc, and has nothing to do with PIE yx).
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