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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 49266
Date: 2007-07-02

stlatos pisze:
> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
>> stlatos wrote:
>>
>>> Oh? What about *gYonYxWeye+ > *kYaniyi+ > OE
>> cennan?
>>
>> Wrong. OE cennan 'beget, conceive' contains a
>> different root, *g^enh1-!
>
> I'm talking about OE cennan 'make known', ON kenna 'teach, know',
> OHG bichennan 'know'. You may argue with the possible derivation and
> sound changes I reconstruct, but I don't believe the root is wrong.

Ah, but that one's got double -nn- in ON and Goth. (kannjan), so it
reflects Gmc. *kann-ija-/-i:-, obviously a new analogical causative
based on the preterito-present *kann- (itself secondary). The other OE
cennan is from *g^onh1-éje/o- (= Skt. janáyati) > *kan(i)ja- > WGmc.
*kannja-.

Piotr