Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 55272
Date: 2008-03-15

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:58:46 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>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
>================
>
>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 ?

Like everybody else does: *siuh1-tlóm, *me:ms-róm.

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