On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:14:10 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
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gpiotr@...> wrote:
>On 2008-03-15 21:46, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
>> Does it mean that in LAtin
>> when the root skeleton ends
>> - with H then the suffix is -dh-
>> - with C other than H
>> the suffix is -t- ?
>
>Olsen's claim is that when the root ends in non-syllabic *h1/2, the
>suffix is *-tHr/lom > Italic *-þr/lom > *-ðr/lom > -brum/-bulum.
>Otherwise it's *-tr/lom > -trum/-culum.
Within Balto-Slavic, Baltic generalized *-tlom (Lith.
-klas), while Slavic generalized *-thlom > *-dhlom (OCS
-dlo). E.g. Lith. árklas = CSlav *or"dlo = Grk. árotron <
PIE *h2ar&3trom.
Greek preserves all variants (245 hits for -tron, 98 for
-thron, 11 for -tlon and 14 for -thlon on Perseus).
The alternation l ~ r is explained by Olsen as following
from the shape of the root: if it contained /r/ or /l/ or
ended in /s/, we originally had *-tróm, else *-tlóm
(Balto-Slavic has generalized *-t(h)lo-).
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