From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 41224
Date: 2005-10-10
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Elmegård Rasmussen" <jer@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 7:57 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE Ablaut
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, let us say that the base of *op-os- is *H3ep-.
> >
> > How would you explain AS efnan?
>
> OE efnan 'accomplish' is a class I weak verb, i.e. with umlaut of /a/.
> The PGmc. stem was *abnia- (or *afnia-?).
>
> Jens
Patrick:
Thank you for this information.
Is there any direct proof of *ab/fnia or do we assume a-umlaut merely
because of the OE <e>?
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