Re: [tied] PIE dental + guttural clusters in Germanic

On 2006-04-28 13:00, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> Does anyone know what happens to PIE dental + guttural
> clusters in Germanic, i.e. those that used to be thought
> to have **þ? I know that *dhg^homon- becomes _guma_,
> _gumi_, but what happens medially?

PGmc. *gum-an- reflects the zero grade *d(H)g^Hm- (the *u is
epenthetic). In this combination the loss of the dental element must be
very old, since it's confirmed independently by several branches.

> Is *tetk^- >*þahsu-
> > German _Dachs_ still considered correct?

The etymology was seriously undermined by Joshua Katz a few years ago.

> And what
> happens to the voiced *dg

It's hard to find _any_ examples of this one anywhere in IE.

> and *dhgh?

The evidence for Germanic is just insufficient, I'm afraid.

Piotr