Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:41:14 +0000, P&G <petegray@...> wrote:

>>> Why should the initial combination gn- be a problem in nouns (leading to
>>>o-gn) when it is not in verbs?
>>Refresh my memory. Which noun had o-gn-?
>
>The nouns in gon-, if the prefixed /O/ is metathesised, as Jens suggested.

It's not a noun/verb question, or even strictly a pronounceability
question. I'm nost sure which gon- was meant, but if it's from Pokorny's
(1) *g^en&- "erzeugen", there's a causative *g^on-éy-e/o- made from it.

Only thing that worries me is why the Skt. causative is janáyati and not
*ja:náyati. Shouldn't the laryngeal have been deleted in *gOnh1-éy-e/o-?

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