Re: PS Emphatics

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 52241
Date: 2008-02-03

On 2008-02-03 23:52, tgpedersen wrote:

> Hm. I assume that would be *sU-tráva? Why would that -U- not have been
> dropped?

Because in the middle of the 5th century it was pronounced as /u/, not
yet reduced to a schwa-like central vowel; actually, in an archaic
_noun_ with this prefix I'd even expect *soN- rather than *sU- (the
latter is primarily a verbal prefix), so a Latinate rendering of such a
word would have been *<sutraua> or *<santraua>. The root would have been
that of OCS -trovoN, travljoN 'consume' < *treuh- (Gk. trú:o: 'wear out').

Piotr