Re: [tied] Re: PIE Word Formation (2)

On 2006-04-04 17:27, Rob wrote:

> Thanks for the info! It seems that the situation in Old Indic was
> convoluted indeed. Admittedly, I had not factored vrddhi into the
> equation. The forms _devá-_ and _devyá-_, with full vocalism (be it
> *e or *o), suggest recency within IE. Vrddhi is another story
> altogether. Do you think that the form _dáivya_ was inherited from IE
> itself or is a later innovation?

I think it's an inner Indo-Iranian generalisation of an inherited
pattern of full-vowel insertion. Forms like <dáivya-> (as if from
*dé:iw-jo-, where *e:i results from infixing an extra *e into *ei, are
something of an IIr. speciality.

Piotr