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

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-06-26 21:53, stlatos wrote:
>
> > These and similar words show both *gYhel-xW-t.o+
> and *gYhl,xW-t.o+
> > so I don't think starting with 0-grade explains
> this change.

> I suspect some kind of vr.ddhi
> transformation of an
> inherited nil grade within Balto-Slavic. Cf. Lith.
> z^énklas 'sign' for
> *g^n(o)h3-tlo- (Skt. jn~á:tra- 'intellectual
> faculty'), with the vowel
> inserted in the wrong slot.

I don't think so. It seems like a simple:


*gYenY-xW-tro+ *gYnY,xW-tr(e)+ > *gYnYoxW-tr(e)+


with optional insertion of e>o to prevent CY and CW coming together as
onset and nucleus in 0-grade. Also seen in:

*gYnY(o)xWto+ > *kunþa+ > OE cu:þ; L no:tus
'known'

*gYnY(o)xWmYn.,+ > *z^inmen > Lith z^yme:; Slavic *zna:men+
'sign'