Re: [tied] Star (was "Azerbaijan")

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 12461
Date: 2002-02-24

Could Naksatra be from naks- "night"?
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Star (was "Azerbaijan")

It is so reconstructed, via an *s extension (as in Lat. a:ra:, Osc. a:sa- 'altar' < *h2ah1s-ah2, Hitt. hassa- 'hearth') which also produced the PIE term for 'ashes', glowing embers' an further derivatives meaning 'glow, be on fire'. Of course *h2h1s-tér- is just a piece of abstract morphological notation relating this derivative to {h2eh1-s-}; it is the underlying form of something that had to be simplified in order to be rendered pronouncible: *h2ste:r [x(&)ste:r]. Phonotactic constraints apply to the surface form of a fully derived and inflected word, not to underlying morphemes.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:26 AM
Subject: [tied] Star (was "Azerbaijan")

Just a question. If *xah- is "burn" then... are we to reconstruct
*xhste:rs for "star"? Is this a valid word form for IndoEuropean?

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