Re: Compound Roots? (was: Short and long vowels)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In 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.
>

And note that the n-infix occurs in nominal, not verbal roots, as
Kuhn points out is the case in many of his Nordwestblock roots.


Torsten