Re: value of "u"

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

> If one take a look at the Latin verb "quatio:" one will observe

there ,

> the PIE root given there is *skuet- with an "e" which is turned up

with

> the head down and an "u" which is marked wich an short sign under

it.

>
> For Latin "qutio:" there are several cognates in the IE languages

as:

> OldNordic "hossa", OldFrisian "schedda", OHG "scutilon", NordGerman
> "schütteln", Lith. "kuteti".
>
> Among these cognates I will put the Rom. "scutura"(to shake) and

maybe

> Alb. "shkund". I said "maybe" for Albanian because there should be
> interesting to explain first the presence of "n" here since in no

other

> IE language is traced the presence of"n".
>
> As for Rom. word "scutura" the official explanation is a

phantesist one.

> There has been postulated an Latin *excutulare , useless invention

since

> the PIE root is in fact already with "s"
>
> PIE *skuet- > Rom. "scutura" which word is simply the PIE root +

suff.

> "-ura".
>
> I should like to know the phonetical values of this "u" and "e" for
> corelating its development in Rom.
>
> Alex

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Dear Alex,
Normal derivation of PIE *skeud- 'to shoot, chase, throw' should be
verb <hedh> 'to throw, to fling, to launch', due to at most regular
evolution of *sk- > h-, *eu > e, but I am afraid from an o-grade
form *skoud- > hadh > hedh.
Verb <shkund> is a prefixed form of a stem *kund, probably from
nazalized form of 0-grade variant *(s)kud- (cf. përkund 'to rock, to
shake'.)

Konushevci