Re: [tied] Slavic hare

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 9759
Date: 2001-09-24

The "moon base" is *meh1-s- (from *meh1- 'measure'), and I think we have the noun-forming *-h1en- suffix here in the nil grade, *-h1n- > *-In-, to explain the progressive palatalisation.
 
Piotr
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sergejus Tarasovas
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Slavic hare


Just have discovered your suggestion is a classical solution (since
the end of the 19th c.). I suspect we have something regular here:
*mes- 'measure, change' > *me:s-en-ko-, *g^Hoi- 'jump' > *g^Ho:i-en-
ko-. (deverbatives, prolongated vocalism).