On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:27:33 -0200, João Simões Lopes Filho
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jodan99@...> wrote:
>Can This r/n alternation explain the Latin marcus and Germanic *hamaraz,
>"hammer", Slav kamy "stone", Greek akmon "stone". *kom-en- / -er- ?
I don't recognize <marcus>. Germanic *hamaraz is related to the words
for "stone", but the story is rather complicated. There is the
curious alternation between *kam- and *ak^m-. The neuters in *-men
don't participate in the **-n > *-r shift, and these words are not
even neuters (Slav. kamy < *kamo:n-s; Gmc. hamar-az). There is also
the occurrence of byforms with *-l (MHG hamel "rock", Norw. <humul>
"stone"; Gothic <himins> "sky", ModE. "heaven" vs. German <Himmel>,
Du. <hemel>) to further complicate matters. So no, my theory is too
simple to explain this.
>And the adjectives in -nos/-ros? cf. Greek kyknos "swan" and Sanskrit shukra
>"white, shining"
Yes, that's what I claimed. Note further the interactions between
u-stem adjectives and -rós (and *-nós) adjectives in Armenian (N.
barjr (*bhrg^hr-), G. barju (*bhrg^hu-), NPl. barjunk` (*bhrg^hon-)),
Tocharian (replacement of *-ú by *-rós: swa:re "sweet", pärkare
"long").
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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