[tied] Re: PIE Word Formation (1)

From: tgpedersen
Message: 44168
Date: 2006-04-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
>
> > I suspect the thematic inflection became the "open" one, in the
> > sense that foreign words were assigned to it. That would explain
why
> > *ekW-o-, *taur-o- and *wlkW-รณ- (?) are thematic.
>
> It's *wl.'kWo-. But there are PIE or sub-PIE nouns which are
certainly
> borrowed (those above need not be) and which are not o-stems, e.g.
> *septm. 'seven' *pelek^u- 'axe'. It's true that the thematic
> declension eventually became the default one in the PIE noun
system,
> but it's a poor diagnostic test for detecting loans.
>

Erzya Mordva ajgor, Moksha Mordva ajg&r, loans from
Tatar, "stallion". Not exactly compelling, but the possibility of a
loan is there. (Note also Mordva ajdJa "drives").


Torsten