[tied] Re: bake

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> > To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:18 AM
> > Subject: [tied] Re: bake
> >
> >
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but a zero grade extension *bh&g-, as
> far as
> > > I know, would have been stressed after the -g- extension, and -

g-

> > > therefore be subject to Verner; thus Gmc **bag-, not *bak- ...
> >
> > Well, it _is_ wrong. Verner's Law applied to fricatives only,
> changing *f, *þ, *x, *xW and *s into *b [B], *d [ð], *g [G], *gW

[GW]

> and *z, respectively. The PIE *d series (> Gmc. *t) were

unaffected,

> so Vernerian alternations are impossible in stems like those of
> <sit>, <eat>, <leap>, <drink> and <bake>.
> >
> Of course.

But how do you explain OHG 'bacchan', 'bahhan' >
NHG 'backen', 'bachen' and 'Bäcker' "baker" then? Low German
influence?
Greek 'pho:gein', Lat 'fo:veo' (< perf. fo:vi), German bu:k. It seems
the o-grade is long. If the verb stem is *bH&g- < *bHh1g-, how does
it ablaut?


Torsten