Re: [tied] Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- & *ksud-

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:29:43 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:34:09 +0000, Richard Wordingham
>> <richard@...> wrote:
>>
>> >One thing that bothers me about the 'like but not the same' meaning is
>> >that the -ro- disappears from the comparatives and superlatives of
>> >adjectives, e.g. ks.odi:ya, ks.ódis.t.ha from this word.
>
>Correction: ks.odi:yas-
>
>> Doesn't it become -i-, rather?
>
>I don't see any evidence for that in the superlative.
>
>Is there evidence for a systematic -i- in such comparatives? It's not
>obvious to me that the 'extra' -i:- in the comparative (in both Greek
>and Sanskrit) is due to such an alternation.

As I understand it, Caland's rule applies to comparatives
and compounds. Examples of comparatives given in Collinge's
discussion are Av. tiGra- ~ tiz^yars^ti, Skt. s'ukra- ~
s'oci:yas and Grk. aiskhrós ~ aiskhío:n.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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