Re: [tied] IE genitive

Did Glen's Steppe speakers encounter the wolf only when they left
their home for the deep forest? I don't know, but Hermann Hesse must
have had something in mind when he wrote "Steppenwolf."
Dan
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:
'wolf'.

> > For example the noun wlqwos. If Glens theory is right, this word
> > originally was the genitive of a noun welq-. Let us asume

that "welq-"

> > had the meaning "deep forest", and wlqwos (gen) then ment "of the
> > deep forest". After the redefinition wlqwos became a noun meaning
> > someting like "ting of the deep forest", and later on the word

was

> > used about the animal wolf.
>
> If the underlying base denoted something to which the wolf

belongs, then

> of course the wolf be "of (that thing)", and the genitive

expressing this

> would be open to reanalysis as an adjective characterizing "the

one of

> (that thing)", and in substantivized use it could simply come to

mean

> that. By having zero-grade the word wolf is revealed as older than

the

> ablaut proper, while the substantivization, by accenting the zero-

grade,

> is revealed to be younger than the ablaut.