Re: [tied] Re: *wogwh-ni ‘ploughshare’

On 2007-05-04 02:21, stlatos wrote:

> Which words do you think come from *sup-nó- not *swép-no-?



> Greek doesn't have the correct accent,

That's why I'd admit your explanation for Greek. On the other hand, the
accent of the noun may well be contrastive (adj. supnó- --> n. súpno-).
The zero grade is also visible in Albanian and possibly Tocharian (see
below).

> Arm k'un seems to need
> sw-, if Baltic is different from Slavic that seems like a late
> date for analogy.

Not if both words coexisted, perhaps originally with different shades of
meaning (e.g. 'sleep' vs. 'dream, trance') which later merged as one of
the forms was lost. Cf. Tocharian, where we have *s.w'&p(&)ne (TB s.pane
'sleep') < *swepno- vs. *s&mne (in the TB derivative sänmetstse
'entranced') < *supno-.

Piotr