Re: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 48941
Date: 2007-06-09

On 2007-06-08 23:41, tgpedersen wrote:

> In the adjective, yes. But...
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46293
> I argued there was an alternation.

It my be useful to round up examples, actual or apparent, of *tt > *st
in Germanic.

(1) As far as I can see, *-t-tro- yields Gmc. *-stra-, which is
reminiscent of the Latin treatment of the same sequence:

*Blo:stra- 'offering' from *Blo:t-a/i- '(kill for a) sacrifice'
*Gelstra- 'tax' from *GelD-a/i- 'yield, pay'

(2) 2sg. pret. & pret.-pres.:

*waist(a) < *woid-th2a
*warst(a) < *(we-)wort-th2a

etc.

This is in all likelihood analogical, since the *t, expected after all
non-coronal obstruents and PIE *s, is generalised also elsewhere, as in
*kWamt(a) < *(gWe-)gWom-th2a, where it _must_ be analogical.

(3) In isolated words:

*ru(:)sta- 'rust' (if from *h1rudH-to-), and a few i-stems like *xlasti-
'load' (the verb is *xlaT-a/i-). Only *ru(:)sta- goes back to a securely
reconstructed PIE root, but the actual derivation is unclear, the vowel
quantity is puzzling, and since *h1reudH- appears quite often with an
*-s- extension, the reconstruction *h1rudH-to- is not all that compelling.

Piotr