[tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal sham)

>
> I am not sure we should identify the -s- of the s-stem (adjectival
> abstract) *H2áwg-os with the -s- of the verbal root *H2wegs-, which
> is an extended form of *H2ewg-; it depends of course on
> what "extended form" means, which I suppose we don't know (though
> Kümmel's guess at an inchoative -s- in LIV makes excellent sense).
> It seems to be a phonotactic rule that extension by /s/ of a root

of

> the shape *CeRC yields a root with full grade *CReCs; Schindler
> presented that in a review of Anttila's Schwebeablaut. Thus, from a
> root with expected - and established - full grade *H2wegs-, we
> experience no surprise when the causative is found to be *(H2)wogs-
> éye-ti, and I see no reason to enter a rule of metathesis

concerning

> the placing of the o-element.

I was wondering once if the -s- of *h2wegs- might be the result of a
back-formation from an s-perfect (not that I know much about it)?

Torsten