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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2006-04-05 16:33, Mate Kapoviæ wrote:
> > If I get you right, you think that the root is *h1ek'u-/h1k'u
which is
> > made into *oh1k'ú- via Jens's o-infix?
> Precisely, except that the root proper is *h1ek^- and that
the "infix"
> is a prefix in this case, which is what Jens's theory predicts for
*HeC-
> roots.
I like your analysis of this example very much, Piotr. I only wish I
had other examples of o-infixed (or o-prefixed) u-stems. Of course, I
do believe that u-stems are in origin thematic, the -u- being a
reduced variant of the thematic vowel, originally conditioned by
accent on the preceding syllable (possibly only in disyllables). I
have of course noticed that u-stem adjectives have accented -ú-, which
I would like to ascribe to the effects of a jumping contrastive
accent. It would indeed be nice if one could finally connect *H1ék^-wo-
s and *oH1k^-ú-s into a meaningful morphological relationship. We are
perhaps not quite there yet, but it is beginning to look promising.
I cannot thank you guys enough for the attention you are giving the o-
infix analysis which otherwise just seems not to be spoken about.
Jens