Re: *a/*a: ablaut

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-02-13 21:43, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
> > As mentioned in LIV, this is a nasal present from the root
> > *sweh2d-: *suh2n.d- > suvad- > svad- (still scanned once as
> > suvad- in the Rgveda). Cf. also LIV *peh2g^-, n-infix
> > *ph2n.g^- > Skt. paj-.
>
> There's also another possibility -- that we are dealing with a

mixture

> of two different word-families, one connected with the root
> *swa:d-/*swad- 'sweet(en)', the other with the compound *h1su-h1(e)

d-

> (approx. 'good food'), accidentally falling together in Indo-Aryan.

If

> we can divorce forms like Ved. sú:da- 'cook', su:dáyati, and Lith.
> súdyti 'season, salt' from the former, the LIV analysis can be

abandoned

> and no laryngeal is needed in *swa(:)d-.
>
> Piotr
>

But maybe there were three different word-families :
'sweet', 'good food' and 'cook'
...and I start to think that finally maybe they were even more ...

If this is the price to remove the laryngeal ...then Ok :)

Marius