Re[2]: [tied] *pYerkW+

At 8:04:43 PM on Thursday, May 17, 2007, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

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

[...]

>> Depending on the structure of the root we have gen. sg.
>> *-w-ós (after light stems such as *medHu-) or *-éu-s
>> (after heavy stems such as *pértu-, see Szemerényi). Lat.
>> quercus represents the latter type.

> Piotr, for OCS borU 'pine' & OE bearu `tree'

OE <bearu> is 'grove', not 'tree', and it's a wa-stem, not a
u-stem, from PGmc. *barwaz.

> the PIE gen sg. should be *bHor-w-ós but this didn't match

> OE gen. sg. bearwes

From PGmc. *barwasa.

Brian