Re: [cybalist] Hamp and his dog, an IE shepherd

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From: Sergejus Tarasovas

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 6:32 PM

Subject: RE: [cybalist] Hamp and his dog, an IE shepherd

I wrote: [The Slavic word] *pIs-U- [...]

 

Sergei:

 

By the way, why the -u- stem is reconstructed?

 

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My apology to Sergei. The second hyphen (which crept in unintended, as the -U was meant to represent the nom./acc. sg. ending) may indeed suggests a reconstructed u-stem. Sorry, and let me repeat for the sake of clarity that to the best of mu knowledge *pIsU is an o-stem (< *pik'o-s if sufficiently old). To be sure, the distribution of u-stems Proto-Slavic was more limited than in PIE (e.g. u-neuters and u-adjectives were eliminated, and even the surviving u-masculines suffered much analogical contamination) and a very early replacement of *piC-u- by *piC-o- can be contemplated, though of course it makes the connection with *peku all the more speculative.

 

Anyway, since PIE *peku (non-satemised!) has survived in Baltic (Old [and dialectal?] Lith. pe~kus, Pr. pecku 'cattle'), as has the 'dog' word (Lith. šuo~, šun~s, Pr. sunis), whatever happened in Proto-Slavic should in principle be treated with all due caution as an inner Slavic affair.

 

Piotr