Re: [tied] Proto-Indo-European WITCH

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 19-08-03 12:48, tgpedersen wrote:
>
>
> > ... Aren't some geminates supposed
> > to be the result of hypochoristic short forms of long personal

names?

> > Does that extend to nouns in general?
>
> Not in general, but possibly to diminutives.
>
> > Is it derived from a causative *weik^-ye/o- "make yield"/"make

weak"?

>
> The correct PIE causative of *weik^- would have been *woik^eje/o-,
> yielding PGmc. *waigjan- (Verner's Law applies in these

formations). Its

> reflexes are indeed attested: OE wæ:gan, OHG weigen 'to trouble,

afflict'.

>

There's an obsolete irregular preterite 'vog' "killed" of an Old
Norse verb in Danish, cf an epitaph over some soldiers of the second
Schleswig war:

De vog dem,
vi grov dem
en grav i vor have.

Torsten