Re: *a/*a: ablaut

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:14:32 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
> > <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:
> >
> > > If you have at least one argument against this rule post it
> here...
> > >It will be simple: a trace of a laryngeal preserved in that

position.

> >
> > sva:dús "sweet" < *sweh2dús, etc.
> >
> > =======================
> > Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> > miguelc@
> >
>
>
>
> Miguel, with the above example...I hope that you not try to treat
> Lubotsky as a pure idiot.
>
> I will quote for you what the rule is and the additional

explanations:

>
> Lubotsky:
>
> "
> The roots of all above-mentioned words contain a final unaspirated
> voiced stop, preceded by a laryngeal, and, äs I have shown

elsewhere

> (Lubotsky 1981)
> laryngeals were lost in Sanskrit before mediae, WHEN THE WHOLE

CLUSTER

> WAS FOLLOWED BY A CONSONANT.
>
> In the same article I considered the exceptions
> to this ruie. Here I only mention, that the presents svadati,

bhajati

> and radati were originally athematic, äs is evident from, e.g., the
> Vedic forms bhaksi and ratsi.
> "
>
> "
> (2)
> Of the two middles of the root *sueh2d-, sva:date was
> doubtless the original one, while sva'date was formed after
> the active sva'dati.
>
> Since thematic middles often contrast in
> the RV. with athematic actives (cf. RENOU 1952: 249), it is
> likely, that sva'dat-i was originally athematic.
>
> (4) sva':dman- and sva':dman- have the quantity of the vowel of
> the adjective, as often by the derivatives in -man- (WACKERNAGEL-
> DEBRUNNER 1954: 754).
> "
>
> Marius
>

Sorry : (4) sva':dman- and sva:dma'n-

Marius