From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55268
Date: 2008-03-15
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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.
Piotr
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There are obvious counter-examples
like from root *s_z_w "to sew"
we saw the other day.
*s_z_w-dhlom > *su:-bula
unless you admit an ad-hoc
metathesis *s_z_w > *s_w_H2-
and membrum ?
How does she explain these words ?
Arnaud
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