Re: [tied] Diminutive Formation

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

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

> > Dim. from i/u-stems usually restore the i/u if

> > The next two
> > probably aren't from sound changes, but just an
> > attempt to regularize forms that had very unusual
> > alternations in the norm and dim. forms.
>
> Indeed, they are definitely not regular since I've
> found at least one example of the older form (with
> obscuring metathesis).
>
> > This means that *xWoikós wasn't an alternate for
> > *xWoinós formed with a different suffix. It was
> > actually the diminutive 'little alone thing, all
> > alone, etc.' *xWoikós also gained a more
> > regularized
> > form *xWoine/akós later.
> >
> > *xWoinós 'alone > only, one, etc.' >>
> > *xWoikós 'all alone, etc.'
>
> The old dim. was *xWoinó+Ló+s > *xWoinLós.
>
> xWoinLós
> xWoinóLs
> xWoinó:L
>
> Thus *xWoinó:L > Lith vienuolis, OIr óenur, but
> *xWoinakós > Greek *oinakhós > monakhós, OIr óenach
> 'assembly, fair'.

Also with met. is * xWoinkós > * xWonkjós if it's
the source of Germanic *ankjaz 'alone' by:

xWonkjós
onkjós
ongjós
angjás
ankjás
ankjaz

x() > 0
stop > +voice -aspir / n_j
stop > +voice -aspir / z_j
o>a
stop-aspir > -voice
analogy (nom. -z regardless of former stress)


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