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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> Incidentally, are there any deeper thoughts on the origin of
> *pa:g^/k^- 'fix'?
> I'm not completely sure the -n- seen in various derivatives of PIE
> *pa:g^/k^ is *historically*, as opposed to synchronically, an infix.
> I can't convince myself that pnh2g^ > pah2g^ didn't happen in pre-
PIE.
I for one feel very incompletely informed about what material is
actually contained in these roots. I cannot see we even know they
contained laryngeals. We find *pa:g^- and *pang^- (or *pa:k^- and
*pank^-); the same for *pla:g/k-, *plang/k- 'beat, cry' (same root?).
Of course it looks like a nasal-present structure, but proof seems to
be lacking. Especially, if it is *peH2g^-/*p&2-n-g^-, I miss Indo-
Iranian examples with /pi-/; why aren't there any? Is it our concept
of nasal present that is off? It seems everything must be left open
here.
Jens