Re: [tied] Path [was: Re: Gypsies again]

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:23:20 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> 4) "lengthened schwa", in the nom.sg., with
>> "Szemerényi-lengthening" of reduced grade **-&C-s > -o:Cs,
>> after a heavy stressed syllable (e.g. *pónt-o:h2-s, acc.
>> *pónt-h2-m < **pónt-&h2-s, **pónt-&h2-m).
>
>Excuse my change of the topic, but why *pónto:h2s rather than
>*pénto:h2s? Just because of Slavic *poNtI, Greek pontos etc.?

Yes: Armenian hun, Latin pons.

>They may
>be (I'd say they most likely are) independently derived from the same
>_verb_ root, so their vocalism doesn't have to be derived from that of
>the noun in question.

Funny, I've always thought the _verb_ looked secondary in
this word-group. It is restricted to Germanic, where it has
a meaning ("find") which is a long way off the path followed
by the noun.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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