On 2007-02-05 11:16, tgpedersen wrote:
> Latin is full of pseudo-ppp's in -idus; they are perhaps the regular,
> non-standardized outcome?
They correspond regularly to stative verb stems in *-e-h1- (e.g. albeo:
--> albidus), which suggests that the voicing has something to do with
the presesnce of the laryngeal. If Olsen's theory about PIE stop
preaspiration by consonantal *h1 and *h2 is correct, the form of the
deverbal adjective can be explained as *-eh1-tó-s > *-etHos > pre-Lat.
*-eDos > -idus. Cf. also *nogWe-h1-tó- > nu:dus (a similar form
accounting for Germanic *nakWaDa-), with plain adjectival *-tó-; there's
no need to reconstruct an odd-looking *-d(H)- suffix a la Pokorny.
Piotr