Re: [tied] Something about Lachmann

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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
>

But for nu:dus we need -odHos, Piotr, not -edHos :

nu:dus < *nogʷ-odHos

I 'can see' how *-eh1-tó-s would give *edHos > idHus (based on a
supposed h1t > tH > dH)

but 'I cannot see' how *-eh1-tó-s would give *-odHos > *nogʷ-odHos

Marius