From: tgpedersen
Message: 49833
Date: 2007-09-05
>It wasn't. You're right, my attention slipped.
> On 2007-09-05 07:27, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> >> No, I'm not. VL doesn't apply here.
> >
> > How do you imagine that o-grade appeared in this word?
>
> What has this question got to do with Verner if the medial consonant
> is PIE *d? VL applies only to PGmc. voiceless fricatives that
> developed from PIE *p, *t, *k(^), *kW and *s via Grimm's Law.
>
> However, if your new question is independent of my previous reply,
> the o-grade is the same as in other thematic deverbals of the
> well-known type *R(o)-ó-, denoting agents or verbal adjectives with
> active meanings, like *dHrogH-ó-s 'running --> wheel' (Gk. trokHós,
> OIr. droch). You know the <tomós> type, don't you?