From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42857
Date: 2006-01-10
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- &
*ksud-ró
> On 2006-01-07 18:06, Miguel Carrasquer 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.
> >
> >
> > Doesn't it become -i-, rather?
>
> Perhaps, though this "Caland" -i- is hard to distinguish from a
> Sieversian vowel inserted after a heavy syllable (the length of the
> vowel can hardly be significant here). Perhaps the formative suffix was
> simply dropped in the comparative, as in the case of *-u- adjectives, so
> we have *kséud-(i)jos- from *ksud-ró- just like *pléh1-jos- from
> *pl.h1-ú-.
>
> Piotr
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