Re[3]: [tied] Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

At 12:42:57 PM on Saturday, March 8, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

>>>>Guus Kroonen's analysis, with which I agree, is:

>>>>PGmc. N. *steko:, G. *stukkaz [or *stakkaz --mcv] < PIE
>>>>*stégh-o:n, G. *stgh-n-ós

>>>Watkins has *steg- instead of stegh-.

>> Watkins has *stegh- too.

> No, My edition of the Heritage dictionary (1979) states on
> page 1255 that stake < OE staca See steg2 : Pok s-teg 1014
> : stick, pole. but It's not on the bartleby online site.

Watkins certainly does have *stegH- 'to stick, prick;
pointed': <http://bartleby.com/61/roots/IE497.html>. It's
perfectly true that Watkins doesn't assign <stake> to this
root, but rather to *steg- 'pole, stick'; *stegH- seems
semantically quite appropriate, however.

Brian