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

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

> On 2007-07-01 21:42, stlatos wrote:
>
> >> 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)+
>
> _I_ don't think so. The root is *//g^neh3-//, not
> **//g^enh3-//. The
> place where the vowel appears does matter.

Oh? What about *gYonYxWeye+ > *kYaniyi+ > OE cennan? You also
didn't object to:

*kWen.-x-tro+ > Skt khanítra- 'spade'

even though the root appears mostly as *kWn.ax+:

G kná:o: 'I scrape'; MIr cnáim 'I chew/gnaw'

PIE allowed metathesis to correct difficult clusters, often the
result of morpheme boundaries:

*dhexY+ 'place, put'

*kYerd+ 'heart'

*kYerd+dhexY+ > *kYreddhexY+ 'place trust (heart) in > believe'