Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

Piotr,

do you think there is any chance that *o-stems are a result of the suffixing
of the first element of the Hoffmann suffix (*H3)?


Patrick

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')


> On 2008-03-24 10:38, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> > What happens in Germanic with Hoffman's suffix ?
>
> Some of the weak nouns (nasal stems) are old Hoffmann formations. One
> fairly certain case is *Gum-an- (nom.sg. *Gum-o~:) 'man' <
> *(dH)g^Hm.-h3on-. There are also numerous derivatives with suffixes
> added to *-h3(o)n-, including *junGa- 'young' < *ju:nGa- < *juwn.ká- <
> *h2ju-h3n.-k^ó- (Ved. yuvas'á-, Lat. iuvencus), formed from a Hoffmann
> compound preserved in Sanskrit (*h1jú-h3o:n/*h2ju-h3n-os > Ved.
> yúva:/yú:nas 'young (man)').
>
> Piotr
>
>