Re: [tied] One.

On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:08:16 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<mcv@...> wrote:

>On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:16:48 -0000, "P&G" <petegray@...>
>wrote:
>
>>>Following the Greek-Armenian-Slavic connection, one is tempted ...
>>
>>How realistic is the idea of a Greek-Armenian-Slavic connection without I-I?
>>(a) Greek-Armenian-I-I connections are well established. This suggests
>>Slavic does not have such strong links to Greek as I-I does.
>>And
>>(b) Greek shows no sign of satemisation, although Armenian, I-I and Slavic
>>do. This suggests Greek separates off while I-I and Slavic are still in
>>contact.
>>
>>Both of these would prima facie make a sprach-bund of Greek-Armenain-Slavic
>>without I-I rather unlikely, wouldn't they?
>
>One isogloss does not a Sprachbund make.

Especially since, as I forgot to mention, the whole thing may be an
archaism, viz. a Greek-Armenian-Slavic-Hittite isogloss.

In nAIE, pronominal stems have a strange infix *-sm- in the Abl., Dat.
and Loc. singular. It may well be identical to the root *sem- "1".

In Hittite, *-sm- does not occur, but we have instead (in the Dat/Loc,
and sometimes in the Abl. and Ins., both in the singular and, it has
to be said (analogically?) in the plural) a formant *-eda(n)-
[dem.prn. DL ke:dani, ape:dani; I. ke:danda, ke:t, GDL pl. kedas,
ape:das; rel.prn. DL kuedani, GDLpl. kuedas; p.prn. Abl. ammedaz,
anzedas, tuedaz, sumedaz]. AFAIK, it's unknown how the Hitite word
for "one" was pronounced. It has a pronominal declension and goes:
N. 1-as (1-is), Acc/n. 1-an, G. 1-e:l, DL 1-e:dani, Abl. 1-e:(d)az(a).


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