On 2008-02-05 10:36, Patrick Ryan wrote:
> Is it not going a bit too far to call *srew- indivisible when one of
its common forms is *strew-?
The *t is inserted by regular sound changes in Germanic, Slavic (but not
Common Baltic!) and Thracian. It isn't an original protosegment.
> Are you suggesting that you believe -*w means 'forward movement'?
>
> Your argument in a nutshell for this would be of interest.
The parallel treatment of verbs of movement like *dr-ah2-, *dr-em-,
*dr-ew- and *gW-ah2-, *gW-em-, *gW-ew- (the last-mentioned root is my
reconstruction, the preceding two are well-known) and the existence of
sr-ew-, pl-ew-. I can send you an electronic copy of the IF article if
you are interested. I don't think the original meaning of such
"extensions" can be recovered with much accuracy through internal
reconstruction, but some kind of directional affix is at least thinkable.
Piotr