[tied] Re: *wogwh-ni ‘ploughshare’

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

>
> On 2007-05-03 21:54, stlatos wrote:
>
> > But *swepn.os has e surrounded by both KW and P in the same syl-
> > lable. Therefore hupnos and somnus are likely to be from the same
> > PIE word.
>
> That may work for Greek (cf. húdo:r), but note Slavic *sUnU.

Is there any evidence that o does not > u between w & p in a
syllable? If *kwap+ > *ku:pe:ti+ > OCS kypEti 'boil', met. >
Lith ke:puoti 'breathe' there seems to be some ev. for rounding
in Balto-Slavic also (although analogy, e vs. a, timing, etc.,
are uncertain). Even if there weren't any supporting evidence
at all, it could still just be analogy with verbs like sUpati.

> If
> *swép-no- (also Ved. svápna-, Av. xVafna-, PGmc. *swefna-) is the
> expected -no- derivative of the Narten root *swé:p-/swép- (see the
> causative *swó:p-ie- and the iterative *swép-sk^e/o- > Av. xVafsa-), a
> "normalised" variant with the nil grade, *sup-nó-, could easily have
> arisen through analogy.

Which words do you think come from *sup-nó- not *swép-no-?
Greek doesn't have the correct accent, Arm k'un seems to need
sw-, if Baltic is different from Slavic that seems like a late
date for analogy.