Re: [tied] *pYerkW+

On 2007-05-21 22:15, Sean Whalen wrote:

> I got thrus.nì from:
> http://users.sedona.net/~strand/IndoAryan/Chitral/Khow/KhowLanguage/Lexicon/Khowar.html
> It's possible I misremembered it having final -u, or,
> though there is not a lot of dialect variation, there
> is some, so there might be a dialect showing final -u
> and one with -i (it would be dissim of u-u > u-i).
> Either way it's only the presence of the nasal I care
> about for this change.

But then there is no need to resort to Khowar in particular. *tr.s-nó-
is widely attested in Iranian (PIr. *tr.s^na- 'thirst' > Av. tars^na-,
Khot. ttarra-, MPer. tis^n), *tr.'s-náh2 in Indic. The formation is
entirely transparent, like *tr.s-tó-, and I see no reason to connect it
directly with *tr.s-ú-. If anything, -ú- adjectives are connected with
those in *-ró- (check the archives for detailed discussions of the
connection -- the problem has been raised here before).

Piotr