Re: Doublets in PIE

From: Torsten Pedersen
Message: 5771
Date: 2001-01-25

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Correction: I mean accidental "(near-)homosemy", i.e. unmotivated
similarity of meaning between unrelated roots.
>
> Before Miguel responds, I'd like to mention a pattern that doesn't
conform to the usual rules of PIE allomorphy but looks real enough:
>
> *gWem- : *gWah2- 'come, walk'
> *men- : *mah2- 'think, be mentally roused'
> *bHen- : *bHah2- 'say'
>
> And what's the function of "determinants" in roots like *drem-
/*drah2-/*dreu- 'run'? Unextended **der- 'run' is not attested, but
then word-coining need not start with a real "base"; as historical
examples show, we can have all sorts of backformations based on
truncated roots treated as bound morphemes (say, if originally
simplex *stah2- 'stand' is reanalysed as *st-ah2-, this opens the way
for *-ah2- to be substituted with other "determinants", producing a
constellation of alliterating roots that cannot be related in the
regular way).
>
> Piotr
>

(Here he goes again.)

Unless they're (repeatedly loaned) loanwords, of course (2 of 3)

www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/man.html
www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/bha.html

Torsten