Re: Allofamy, allofams

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-07-04 12:24, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Is 'allofamy' a term cybalist should consider using for PIE (eg.

are

> > the two roots PIE *gWen-/*gWax- (*gWen,-/*gWax-?) "come, go" and

PGerm.

> > *gan,/*gax- "go" co-allofams)? It would of course in each case

imply

> > the possibility of a loan.
>
> You mean *gWem-/*gWah2- on the one hand, I suppose, and PGmc. *Ge:-

(as

> in <go>, <gehen>, etc.) and *GanG- (as in Goth. gaggan, OE gangan,

ON

> ganga, etc.) on the other.

Since it's virtually unknown outside Germanic, it might as well have
been PPGerm. *gaH- with whatever laryngeal; the way I wrote them
makes the parallelism stand out nicer.

>Of the latter pair, the first verb has good
> cognates outside Germanic (e.g. Skt. jáha:ti) and seems to reflect

PIE

> *g^Heh1(i)- 'leave, go out' (in my private theory of "long

diphthong"

> roots this would be rewritten as *g^Heih1-). The second has only
> uncertain external cognates and looks like some kind of obscured
> reduplication, perhaps somehow related to *Ge:-.

>I wouldn't like to say
> too much about *gWem- and *gWah2- in public at the moment. I've

written

> an article about them and I'm waiting for the prospective

publisher's

> decision right now.

The idea of allofamy might get in your way. Maybe you should check
out Matisoff's "Handbook ..."?

>But if you're interested in a sneak preview, I'll be
> happy to send you a copy.
>

Of course I am. Please send.


Torsten