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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> But what we have in German seems to be from
> *bH&g, *bHoh1g > *bho:g, *bH&g
>
> Where do you see any Gmc **be:k- "bake"?
>
> Torsten
It seems to have been an *o-present, cf. Gk. pHo:go: . The short
vocalism of the present tense in Germanic looks secondary; in general,
the a ~ o: ~ o: ~ a ablaut is hard to explain. This class of strong
verbs contains originally different types of roots. They were
conflated in Germanic with at least some analogical restructuring. For
example, *sak-an- (< *{seh2g-}; OE sacan, so:c, so:con -sacen) has the
same root structure as *{bHeh1g-}, but *far-an- (OE faran, fo:r,
fo:ron, -faren) seems to derive from *por- -- a different shape
resulting in the same ablaut pattern in Germanic.
*bHeh1- 'bake, warm' (without the extension) is visible in OHG ba:en <
*be:-j-an- (< *bHeh1-je-).
Piotr