[tied] Re: -ber, -bris

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 22291
Date: 2003-05-27

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Rob wrote:

> > It's actually not a particle, but the result of a sound change.
The following is from Andrew Sihler's New Comparative Grammar of Greek
and Latin (1995):

> > septem-mens-ri- "pertaining to the seventh month" > septemenèri- >
septemembri- > nom. september via syncope and assimilation

> [Alex:] it looks like trying to make the best of something but not
very clean. Thank you for your explanation Rob.

"Not very clean?" What do you mean? It's as clean as a whistle. *-sr-
> -br- may look odd, but it's a regular change in Latin, cf.
*kom-swesr-i:nos > consobri:nus 'mother's sister's son', *me(:)ms-ro-m
> membrum 'body part', *k^r.h2-sr-o:n > cra:bro: 'hornet'. Haplology
(*-emem- > -em-) is a perfectly ordinary phenomenon.

Piotr