Re: [tied] Timing of ablaut

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:49:18 +0200 (CEST), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

>> Specifically, if the root is indeed *styeH rather than *steyH,
>> stya:yate: can be *styoH-ey-e-toi.
>
>That is what I discarded to begin with on the basis of Goth. stains and
>Gmc. *{th}ai-sman- 'leaven' (OHG deismo), which latter may form a paradigm
>with Gk. sô:ma (*[s]táyH3-smn, *[s]tiH3-smén-s 'compact mass'), which then
>formed the o-infix derivative *stóyH3-no- 'made of a compact mass'.

I should add that this clever etymology for Greek so:ma "body" (usually
explained as *two:mn. [*twh3-mn-] from the root *teuh3- "to swell") goes at
the expense of the usual etymology for Greek stear, steatos "stehendes
Fett, Talg", which is explained (IEW, Boisacq) as *sta:yr., from the same
root that gives Skt. stya:yate:. If the fatty etymology is correct, this
root contains *h2, not *h3, and is probably a derivation of *steh2- "to
stand" (making stya:yate: irrelevant to the fate of Sanskrit *h3e).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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