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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
> > It's an argument against any recent derivation of the nouns in

this group

> > from the verbal root.
>
> Do you know of any Germanic strong verbs (let's say, for

simplicity, in

> the first three classes) that are back-derived from an o-grade

noun? The

> development strikes me as extremely unlikely, especially given the

fact

> that the normal processes of denominative derivation were fully
> productive in pre- and Proto-Germanic. From *ponth2(o)- one would

expect

> a weak verb like *fanþji/a-, which could be coined at any time

since

> PIE. And that's indeed what we get, cf. OE fe:þan 'walk'.

Something

> parallel to Gk. pateo: is another possibility, but why a strong

verb, of

> all things?
>

German 'fahnden' "search for" (suspects, mostly).


Torsten