Re: [tied] Re: Bader's article on *-os(y)o

On Sun, 23 May 2004 01:21:57 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>> I now have an elegant solution for /e:/ ~ /0/ and
>> /o/ ~ /0/ ablaut in nouns (*k^é:r(d), *k^r.dés, *pé:r(r),
>> *pr.nés; *póntoh2s, *pn.th2ós), an explanation for the zero
>> grade in the plural of Narten presents, possibly also an
>> explanation for *tudéti/*yugóm thematics, etc.
>
>Skt. há:rdi indicates to me that the /e:/ of 'heart' has been caused
>by the lengthening effect of the collective marker *-H2

There is no collective marker in Grk. or Hitt. ke:r. And
the correspondence Skt. -i ~ Hitt. -iy- (kardiyas) also
doesn't exactly point to a laryngeal.

It's simply that besides the root noun *k^í:rd, *ki:rd-ás (>
*k^é:r, *k^r.dés) there was also a variant with a suffix
-i(n). *kí:rd-in, *ki:rd-ín-âs regularly gives *ké:rdi,
*kr.dyós, which is what we see in Skt. NA há:rdi (with
aberrant initial) and Hitt. oblique kardiya- (as well as in
Greek kardía:, Arm. sirt/srti-, BS *s'r.di-).


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