Re: pottus, Genua, Durantia (was: Bart; was: Ligurian)

From: dgkilday57
Message: 69864
Date: 2012-06-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> W dniu 2012-06-22 02:52, dgkilday57 pisze:
>
> > Bergunda and other Norwegian OEH names with sound-shifts in
> > place show that Germanic is descended from OWIE,
>
> Including the Burgundians?
>
> > and if ablaut-grades
> > were as fickle as certain scholars think, the striking regularity of
> > strong verbs in Gothic and the other old Gmc. lgs. would be
> > inconceivable. The Gmc. strong classes would show a chaotic hodgepodge
> > of random ablaut.
>
> Germanic does show a lot of random variation (as well as numerous
> Vernerian and/or Klugean byforms) in originally ablauting *nouns* (as
> opposed to ablauting verbs). That is hardly surprising: nominal
> paradigms were levelled out very early in Germanic. A late IE
> amphikinetic pattern like *bHérg^H-ont-/*bHr.g^H-n.t-' could easily have
> left traces of both allomorphs in hydronymic derivatives.

All right, that explains the Burgundians, as well as the apparent discrepancy between /e/-grade in Dravanti: and zero-grade in the *Dru(w)antia/Drewenz forms, and I no longer need to assume that *wreigH- necessarily formed a zero-grade present stem like the Skt. 6th class.

DGK