Re: [tied] Re: word without root

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5550
Date: 2001-01-16

You are perfectly right. *j- wasn't there in postconsonantal positions; it was an onset-filler used word-initially and in hiatus. This correction applies to my other examples as well (though it doesn't matter most of the time), e.g. *sUn-Im-U, not *sUn-jIm-U.
 
Thanks,
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
From: s.tarasovas@...
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: word without root

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote:
> There's a rather extreme Polish example involving the same root
*jIm- 'take'. The Slavic prefixed verb *vUz-jIm-ti 'take, take up'
(Russian vz'at', Polish wzia,c')

Protest. The form could not be *vUzjImti as it would be reflexed as
**vzhat' in Russian and wz.a,c' (?) in Polish. It definitely was
*vUzImti.

Sergei