[tied] Re: Lexicon of Proto-Indo-European morphological roots

That book (Anatolian Historical Phonology) is a treasure-trove of
roots and derived forms lacking in the Mallory-Adams book. It's really
quite amazing; I'd say it might be well worth adding some of the
suggested PIE roots that Melchert reconstructs there into a PIE list.
I myself started such a list, but sadly I had to return the book to
the library. I hope to take it out again tomorrow and continue the
job. It's quite wonderful.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:12:25 -0000, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
> <elme@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> ><miguelc@> wrote:
> >
> >> >Ringe's _From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic_ (OUP, 2006);
> >this
> >> >particular chapter is available online as a PDF:
> >>
> >> The following paragraph caught my eye:
> >>
> >> A laryngeal which was separated from an o-grade vowel by a
> >> sonorant, but was in the same syllable as the o-grade vowel,
> >> was dropped (cf. Beekes 1969: 74-6, 238-42, 254-5). For
> >> instance, whereas the laryngeal of *dheh1- "put" survived in
> >> the derived noun *dhóh1mos "thing put" (cf. Gk. tho:mós
> >> "heap" and OE do:m "judgment", both with long vowels that
> >> reveal the prior presence of a laryngeal), that of *terh1-
> >> "bore" was dropped in *tórmos "borehole" (cf. Gk tórmos
> >> "socket" and OE þearm "intestine"). The most important
> >> application of this rule was in the thematic optative, in
> >> which the sequence */-o-yh1-/ was reduced to *-oy- in most
> >> forms.
> >
> >Thanks, Miguel, for showing us this. It is of course outrageous.
> >Hasn't anybody really understood the message of the o-infix theory?
>
> Apparently not. For instance, H. Craig Melchert ("Anatolian
> Historical Phonology") discusses "Saussure's Law" (pp.
> 49-51) at reasonable length without mentioning the o-infix
> hypothesis even once. Most of the discussion is about HRo-
> > Ro-, but his two examples of -oRH- > -oR- in Hittite are
> kalmara- "ray, beam" < *k^olh2mo-ro- and palwa:(i)- "to
> clap", interpreted as a denominative verb from a noun
> *pol2weh2-. At first sight, those two, being thematic
> derivatives, seem to to conform to the restriction that "The
> laryngeal-deleting vocalism is not *just any o*, but *only*
> the particular kind of /o/ that emerges from an earlier
> infixed consonant (which was still earlier a prefix) ..."
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
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