Re: [tied] Syllabic (was: Etymology of Rome - h1rh1-em-/h1rh1-o:m-)

--- Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:

> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > On 2007-03-16 13:02, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
> > > Greek *géra:n is from an analogical nom. <
> > géran-.
> >
> > There is no Gk. *géra:n. The word is geré:n (or
> > gére:n) < *gerh2-e:n,
> > the fem. counterpart of masc. géranos <
> *ger&2-n-o-.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't thinking about the order of a: >
> e:
> when I wrote that so this:
>
> géranos ... gérana: ... khó:ra:
> géranos ... gerána: ... khó:ra:
> géranos ... geránæ: ... khó:ræ:
> géranos ... geránæ: ... khó:ra:
> géranos ... geræ:'n ... khó:ra:
> géranos ... geré:n .... khó:ra:
>
> would work, with geré:n optionally changing to the
> (now possible) accent of géranos. The
> switch-and-replace would be analogy with -an- in
> stem
> but nom. in long V+n (or maybe ana with something
> specific like *mæ:tæ:r). Also, since I've tried
> saying these words, maybe it's regular to avoid a
> difficult series of vowels.

Yes, I'm fairly sure it's regular (but varies among
dialects) since there's also:

*xWolk-xY-n.o+ > *o:lénæ: > o:léne: & o:lé:n

so when a: > æ: it probably became or was treated as
e: in the dia. where *o:lénæ: > o:lé:n but was still
treated as a: in the dia. where *geránæ: > geré:n





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