Thanks, Miguel, but you could at
least admit that Toch. pärkär could reflect _either_
*prku- or *bHrg^Hu- (or some other minor formation based on *bHrg^H-)
:). Armenian is not my forte; what's the story of u-stems and the final -r
there?
I don't intend to defend *prku- at no
matter what cost -- just exploring an etymological possibility that has occurred
to me. At any rate, I see no reason why a consonantal stem like **perkWs
(unattested) should have been moved to the u-declension in Latin. Can't see any
examples of such a shift, while counterexamples are easy to find (vo:x, not
**vocus or **vecus). In Germanic, "difficult" consonantal stems ("heart",
"sun", "moon", etc.) could always join the weak declension, but I don't thinks
there would have been nothing difficult about **ferx-.
Piotr
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Poets, linguists and countrymen. Lend me
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Arm. barjr (u-stem), Toch. pärkär (an r-stem, like all
former
u-stems).
>if, on the other hand, parku- < *prk-ú-, we
see at least why quercus should be a u-stem.
But isn't it easier to
assume that a C-stem *perkw-s would become an
u-stem in Latin and Germanic
(any other cases?)?