Re: [tied] *st@dhlo

At 16:07:37 on Monday, 1 December 2003, etherman23 wrote:

> I've been reading Szemerenyi's Introduction to
> Indoeuropean Linguistics and I've come upon what appears
> to be a odd reconstruction. It concerns the word *st@...
> (stall), and he only gives Lat. stabulum as a reflex. Two
> things struck me as odd, the reconstruction of schwa and
> the reconstruction of dh. If Latin were the only source
> language I would expect these sounds to be /a/ and /b/ or
> /bh/.

> Now my sources are somewhat limited and my knowledge of
> the historical changes also limited, but I couldn't find
> any obvious reflexes of *st@... in any language. OTOH, I
> could find several words that appear to come from
> something like *stab(h)lo. To make matters worse I
> consuled two dictionaries and both agree that Lat.
> stabulum comes from stare (which of course comes from
> *sta:). Furthermore I couldn't find st@... in Pokorny's
> list.

It's E8 under *sta:- (nr. 1869):

8. mit Formans -dhlo-: lat. stabulum `Standort, Aufenthalt;
Lager wilder Tiere, Stall' (pro:stibulum `Ding zum
öffentlich Ausstehen, Dirne', naustibulum `Schiffstandort,
Gefäß in Schiffsform'), stabilis `feststehend, standhaft',
umbr. staflarem `stabula:rem', osk. staflatas-set `statutae
sunt', pälign. pri-stafalacirix `*praestibula:trix,
antistita';

vereinzeltere Dentalableitungen: -dh- in gr. <staTmós>,
meist Pl. <staTmá> `Stand, Standort, Gewicht', <staTerós>
`stehend, unbeweglich, fest'; -d- in <stádios> `stehend,
unbeweglich, steif, zugewogen', <stáde:n> `stehend',
<apo-stadón> `fern abstehend'.

Brian