From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56323
Date: 2008-03-30
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>> Some cases of vr.ddhi are very old indeed. That explains the
>> full grade in most thematic nouns, adjectives and verbs. The
>> root was lengthened, the stress fell on the thematic vowel
>> (e.g. **bhar- => **bha:r-á-). Subsequently, the long vowel
>> was shortened in pretonic position, and attracted the stress
>> (**bha:r-á- > *bhér-e-).
>
Because that's how the derivational device known as
"vr.ddhi" works.
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This case is fairly strange.
If we apply your vocalic theory
PIE1 *bhar- should split in :
*bho:r when stressed
*bher when unstressed
Actually *bher never was long.
and *bhér-e is basically a levelling
from the unstressed forms in the paradigm
I supposed it was we and you
which were unstressed
Arnaud
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Yes. *swék^ur- "father in law" => *swe:kurós "brother in
law" (Du. zwager, G. Schwager > Pol. szwagier).
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Logically it should be
*swe:k^ur- < *swi:kur
and
*swik^ur-o:s < *swikur-a:s
Something's wrong with length and stress position
Arnaud
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