Re: [tied] IE thematic presents and the origin of their thematic vo

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...>

wrote:

> >
> > So why not **sOwe:p- then? Why is *O doing an ad
> > hoc dosey-doh?
>
> I may be the right person to answer that. This is regular, for the
> infix consonant always does that: it moves from its original

prefix

> position to the position immediately following the initial
> consonantism of the root. Phrased otherwise, it moves to the

position

> immediately preceding the root vowel. Thus, *derk^- produces

*dork^-

> éye-ti, but *prek^- forms *prok^-éye-ti, all in accordance with

the

> original root form which was, then, in fact monosyllabic and

sometimes

> had an initial cluster.
>

Might one explain the movement of the prefix instead as a form of
vowel harmony and subsequent loss of prefix?


Torsten