Re: o-grade thoughts

From: tgpedersen
Message: 45959
Date: 2006-09-05

>
> These are all roots derived from different earlier forms:
>
> *bha:-, 'shine', from *bha?-
>
> *bha:-, 'speak (loudly)', from *bhaH-
>
> *bhei(6)-, 'beat', from *bho-y-?-
and *bhen "schlagen, verwunden"

>
> *bho:-, 'roast (on a stick)', from *bho?-
Pokorny *bhe:-, *bho:- "wärmen, rösten"
and *bhok- "flammen, brennen" -> Latin focus and ->
(TP) Nordwestblock in German Baake, in English beacon
Now if I coukld get *bhu:- "be" etc into this, that would be nice.
>
> *bho:i-, 'be afraid (perspire/feel hot from fear)', from *bho?-y-

More likely "X is afraid" from an impersonal *bho:i "there is (was)
an appearance to X" with an accusative, cf. the older (eg. Old
Danish) it dreamt me (that ...)"


I think the resyllabification caused by the prefix PPIE *a-
(but not by reduplication!) in its turn caused a consonant
alternation in occlusives: unvoiced unaspirated vs voiced
aspirated; this was regularised in most roots,but cf this
(B = the PPE predecessor of p/bh, whichever it was)
PPIE
*a-Baram
*a-Baras
*a-Barat
*Ba-BaramV
*Ba-BaratV
*Ba-Barant

(resyllabification)
PPIE
*aB-aram
*aB-aras
*aB-arat
*Ba-BaramV
*Ba-BaratV
*Ba-Barant

(occlusive alternation and ablaut)
*iporam
*ipors
*iport
*bhebhromV
*bhebhretV
*bhebhront

from which is abstracted either
the root *por- "transport once"
or
the roor *bher- "transport continually"

There are no verbal roots *per- or *bhor- meaning "transport"


Torsten