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

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:24:56 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>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).

It's still fishy that -ro- is dropped in the comparative,
same as it is dropped in compounds.

>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-.

u-adjectives are often ro-adjectives in disguise (anyway,
there's a strong link between the two). The phenomenon of
suffix-droppong may likewise be of the same in origin. Or
transferred from one to the other.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...