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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> Sun, n.: nom/acc and gen
>
> As I've said, VZZV syllabification seems to be
> optional , so: V-xyV or Vx-yV and V-nwV or Vn-wV, etc.
> These derivations will now focus on both.
>
> The derived forms must have lexicalized gen. due to
> the many changes and separation from nom.
>
> These forms account for:
> Goth. sauil, Lat. sol
> Sanskrit suar
> Greek he':lios/ha:we'lios
> San. su:ryas
But don't account for the -n- forms discussed in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/16501 and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/16881 et seq. I must
confess I still don't know what the declension is in Gothic, but the
heteroclitic forms in Avestan and Gothic should be addressed. It
would also be nice to address the OCS slUnIce.
One problem I see with your derivation is that I'm not sure what
prevents your postulated change x > s | _$ (Anglice: Syllable-final
x > s). I'm struggling to convert your changes into the formalism
of Mark Rosenfelder's Sound Change Applier, even after biting the
bullet of generalising the formalism to support metathesis.
Richard.