Re: [tied] Re: wre:g^, wro:g^ 'break'

29-06-03 12:42, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Piotr offered the schwebeabluat pair *terh1b, *treh1b 'building,
> dwelling'. If the Greek forms trápe:x 'post' and téramna, téremna
> (pl.) 'chambers' are genetically related as Pokorny suggests, they
> show *rh1 > ra just as in the zero grade of *wreh1g^-.

Just a note: I don't think it's Schwebeablaut as originally conceived.
PIE may have been a little Germanic-like in its treatment of roots
containing *r. In cases like *ters- ~ *tres-, *perk^- ~ *prek^- or the
pair above we may be dealing with sporadic rhotic metathesis, just like
OE beorht ~ briht.

Piotr