Re: Allofamy, allofams

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> from
> http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jblowe/REWWW/RE_fn.html
> (unknown author)
> "
> The term 'allofamy', due to Matisoff (1978), refers to
> relationship 'among the various individual members of the same word-
> family'. English royal and regal, borrowed from French and Latin
> respectively, are both ultimately traceable to the same PIE root
> *reg-, and so are co-allofams in Modern English (Matisoff
> 1978:16-18, Matisoff 1992:160). A word family might contain both
> native words and words borrowed from related languages; the
> borrowings may be recent or ancient.
> "
>
> 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.
>

More allofams:

Lithuanian kañka : kãko "go, travel, arrive" with o-grade in the
present stem, or, if it's a loan, just plain /a/, thus < *kank-

PGerm. *hang-/*ha:x- + *-ist- in German Hengst "stallion", ON
hestr "horse", with various cognates in Baltic and Greek

cf ON gangari (< PGerm. *gang-) "steed"


Torsten