Re: *a/*a: ablaut

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:30:05 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-02-12 23:18, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
>> How would you analyze the Ablaut that occurs in a word like
>> *póntoh2s, *pn.th2ós?
>
>I think it was *pénto:h2-s/*pn.th2-ós, with *pont(h2)-o/i- being an
>independent derivative of the same root (*pent(h2)-, to be identified
>with Germanic *finþ-).

That could work of course (personally, I think Germanic
*finþ- (*fenþ-) is a backformation on the pattern *fanþ-,
*funþ-).

But there are more cases where *o alternates with zero or
*u. Right now I can think of the perfect participle
*-wo(:)t-/-us-, and the words *k^uo:n/*k^un- "dog",
*h3noghW-/*h3n.ghW- "nail", *h3nobh-/*h3m.bh- "navel".

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