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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-08-26 11:13, stlatos wrote:
>
> > No, I believe I will restate ONE rule I still have complete
> > confidence in:
> >
> > all these examples have P/KW as the first C
> >
> > P/KW e C (usually +son or +cont) > P/KW o C
>
> This doesn't explain cases like *loikW-no-
All your previous examples began with P/KW; to counter you offer one
(among others unmentioned, true) from Germanic? Can you give some
examples from other branches (I think a sound change in that branch
may obscure PIE ev.)?
I didn't limit my examples of P/KWe>o to -mo- or -no- forms; do you
have any explanation for them?
or the selective bias exerted
> by the root consonants (preference for *-mo- only after roots that
> contain no labial or labialised segments).
This sounds like the preference for R-tro-, and like that there are
many counterexamples:
*bher+ 'carry'
*bhormo+ 'burden, work, (and > reward, etc)'
*bher+ 'shape, fit together'
*bhormo+ 'form'
*bhrev+ 'flow, swirl around, spring forth'
*bhorbmo+ 'spring' > Celt Bormo-/Borvo-
*bhud(h)mo+ 'bottom'
*dhrougWhmo+ 'deception' > dream
*gWhormo+ 'warmth'
*gWhorsmo+ 'heat (of fire/sun?)' > Skt ghraMsa-; W gwrm 'dusky'
*kYuw-x-mo+ 'swelling, fruit' > Gk kuamos 'bean'
*posmo+ 'swelling, fruit' > L po:mum
*ptol-xY-mo+ 'shaking' > brandishing/battle
*pr,xWmo+ 'first'
Gk empre:smos 'burning'
*spyaxmo+ > Av spa:ma- 'spittle'
*srev+ 'flow, run'
*sorbmo+ 'flowing > swirling' > Gk rhombos 'spinning wheel,
bull-roarer, etc'
*topmo+ 'heat' > W twym 'hot'
*von-x-mo+ 'desire' > OS wanum 'splendid'
*vn,x-mo+ > Skt va:ma-
*vraxdmo+ > EIr fre:m 'root'; L ra:mus 'branch'
*xwagsmo+ 'growth' > OHG wahsmo 'fruit'
*sem+ 'one, together'
*sommo+ > Germ *so:ma+ 'agreement'