On 2006-09-24 22:23, tgpedersen wrote:
> Erh, is this a complicated way of saying that the Caland suffixes
> are a closed club and if a root has adjective forms in *-u- and
> *-ro- and insist on having a verb form in *-nu- too, then it's not
> a Caland root?
There are many adjectives in *-ró-, *-nó-, *-mó-, etc., but it so
happens that only those in *-ú- regularly form verbs in *-néu-/*-nu-.
Coincidence? An adjective like *h1rudH-ró-, though a member of the
Caland club, lacks such a factitive. Instead, a nasal present was
probably formed from the root aorist *h1reudH- 'taint/turn red':
*h1ru-né-dH-ti/*h1ru-n-dH-énti (with traces left in Celtic, in some
branches replaced by the "simple thematic" stem (<-- aor. subj.)
*h1réudH-e/o-, cf. Gk. ereútHo:, Gmc. *reuð-a/i-).
Piotr