From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1777
Date: 2000-03-06
Subject: Re: The Gender of the Sun. From: Sergejus Tarasovas |
PIE *plHnos 'full' > *pil@... > *pi:lnas > Lith. pi`lnas, S-Cr. pu"n (cf. Skt pu:rna-)PIE *dlHghos 'long' > *dil@... > *di:lgas > Lith. i`lgas, S-Cr. du"g (cf. Skt. di:rgha-)PIE *grHnom 'grain' > *3ir@... > *3i:rna- > Lith. Zi`rnis 'pea seed', S-Cr. zr"noas opposed toPIE *wlkWos 'wolf' > *wilkas > Lith. vil^kas, S-Cr. vu^k (cf. Skt. vrka-)Apart from compensatory lengthening due to the loss of a laryngeal, *{i,u}R (as well as *{i,u}N) could undergo lengthening when followed by an IE "plain voiced" stop (Winter's Law), again both in Baltic and Slavic.2. I don't know the history of pósolon' (I wish I did; the form looks very interesting), but I suspect that the third o may represent a "spurious yer" added to an original *pósoln' < *pó-sUlnI as in ogon' 'fire' < *ognI (NOT *ogUnI; cf. Skt agni-, Latin ignis). Such epenthetic vowels often occur in stem-final clusters in Slavic. A similar case is Polish pełen 'full', a relatively recent innovation for earlier pełn (attested in older Polish; Russian still has poln).3. I think I have already given a tentatively positive answer to this one. The only problem I can see is the semantic difference between pushing and being pushed (one would have to propose a plausible scenario for a mediopassive origin of the Lithuanian verbs). And how about adding Slavic *CINst- 'often, frequent(ly)' (Russian chasto, etc.) and Lithuanian kim^Stas 'stuffed full' < ?*knt-tó- 'pushed, poked'? Is it far-fetched in your opinion?Piotr