From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 29490
Date: 2004-01-13
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From: "Marco Moretti" <marcomoretti69@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:00 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.
> Ablautical /o/-grade isn't found (as far I know) in any IE variety
> for the root *wen- (from which Venus, Veneti, etc...).
*wenh1-, to be precise. The o-grade must have occurred at least in the
causative *wonh1eje/o- (attested in Indo-Iranian). Pokorny assumes it for
Germanic lexemes containing *wan- 'habit, custom', '(get) accustomed', etc.,
but the semantics is problematic.
Piotr