Re: g^H: an older suffix in PIE adjectives?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, david_russell_watson <liberty@...>

wrote:

>
> > There is *dHen- "to run" that could conceivably work for
> > *dHengHu-, but looking through the dictionary I couldn't
> > find anything convincing for the others.
>
> Off the top of my head, H2ng- comes to mind, if it's the same
> root as Latin angu- ; and if it can be reduced to **H2ng-g^Hu

Well there's two then.

> > However the main problem is that there appears to be no
> > pattern from the start. Three of the cited roots end in
> > *g^H, a palato-velar, two in *gH, a plain velar, and one
> > in *gWH, a labio-velar.
> >
> > So unless we want to talk about three different suffixes
> > here, we've seen no more than three examples of *-g^Hu-.
>
> Out of my ignorance: Is there anything in the roots that could
> cause an alternation between *g^H, *gH and *gWH ? Would the
> presence of /r/, /l/, /n/, /m/ or a vowel produce any such
> changes?

None that I've read about myself except for possibly the *u that
follows. Somebody might argue that it could produce *gWH from
*gH by assimilation, or *gH from *gWH by dissimilation, though of
course those wouldn't be "regular" changes.

There is some possibility of merging the velar series, at least
partially, in a Pre-P.I.E. stage, according to Lehmann, for which
see "The problem of the IE palatals, velars, and labio-velars" at
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/piep13.html#txu-oclc-
3953445.xml-div-d0e19016 .

David