Re: Number nine

On 2008-01-16 22:22, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> This is an inner Brittonic development: *newn. > Celt. *nowan > Britt.
> *nawan by assimilation.
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> Arnaud
> Does this happen with other words ?
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e...a > a...a happens in Celtic (in particular, *era > *ara was a
regular PCelt. change). I'm not sure about the dating of *ew > *ow and
have no historical grammar of Celtic to hand; perhaps *newan became
*nawan directly.

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> Arnaud
> Can we derive enn- from *h1newH2-n or *h1nH2ewn ?
> Is this *theoretically* acceptable ?
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No, given the known phonological developments in Greek.

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> Arnaud
> Which verbs with #w_H2 structure and medio-passive meaning exist in
> PIE ?
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The voice of PIE verbs was a conjugational category (marked by special
inflectional endings), not their lexical property. I don't think I know
a verb like *wah2-, and I have left my copy of the LIV at home, far from
the place where I am now.

Piotr