From: tgpedersen
Message: 45738
Date: 2006-08-16
>Check this out:
> On 2006-08-15 03:09, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > It's interesting BTW that ON taka belongs to
> > class VI since a stem *T-T in Germanic can't be
> > directly from PIE (where it would be **D-D,
> > violating root constraints).
>
> Germanic *tak-/*te:k- (Goth. reduplicating tekan, taítok, tekans
> 'touch') is probably somehow related to Lat. tango: (tetigi:), PToch.
> *täk- 'touch' and the isolated Gk. aor.part. tetagó:n 'having seized'.
>
> See Kortlandt's analysis of the set:
>
> https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/1887/1939/1/344_123.pdf
>
> ... with which I only partly agree. I'd reconstruct the root as *teg-,
> with the *g colouring the vowel to *tag- and producing the minor ablaut
> alternation zero ~ *a ~ *e:. The initial *t in Germanic may be due to
> voicing assimilation in reduplicated forms: *te-tg- > *tedg- > *dedg-
> (like Lat. bibo:) -- here I agree with Kortlandt. I also agree with his
> explanation of OE þaccian 'pat' as a related form produced by Kluge's
> Law; *tag-ná:- > *þakko:-.
>