[tied] Re: *-tro-/*-tlo-

From: stlatos
Message: 49125
Date: 2007-06-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen <elme@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
>
> > The contrast between the adjectives <riktá-, uktá-> and the
> > nouns <riktHá-, uktHá-> is surely somehow significant.
>
> Perhaps the analogical model is the type seen in Avestan ptc. da:ta-
> 'put, fixed', n. 'rule, law' as opposed to the vrddhi formation
> da:tha- 'adherent to the law, follower'. They would be originally
> *dh&1-tó- and *dheH1-to- > *dhetho- respectively, where the results
> would have /t/ in the adjective and /th/ in a nominal derivative. Both
> would have subsequently restored the root *dheH1-.

So, by your order, this change happens after the formation of
syllabic C? That makes the whole thing much less likely to be one PIE
change.