From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60501
Date: 2008-09-29
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
> If you take other languages into account, the derivation becomes quite
> clear. The root is *h3reg^- 'go in a straight line, stretch out' and
> figuratively (already in PIE) 'guide, give directions, rule'. Note that
> such verbs commonly have to do with drawing a straight line,
> etymologically speaking (I suppose ruling tends to be identified with
> planning or deciding the course for others).
>
> *h3reg^- had a so-called Narten present in the protolanguage, with a
> long root vowel in the strong forms (like *h3ré:g^-ti 'he rules'), hence
> probably the long vowel of the nasal stem *h3ré:g^-on- (Ved. rá:jan-),
> which may be a fossilised present participle in *-on(t)-, and the
> generalised long vowel found throughout the paradigm of the root noun
> *h3re:g^-s (Lat. re:x, OIr. rí [also Gmc. *ri:k-, borrowed from Celtic],
> Ved. rá:j-).
>
> Piotr
>
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Are there traces of the initial H3 in compounds ?
I mean xx-v+H3reg > xx-v:-reg as it sometimes happens in Skrt.
Another question :
Are there roots with Narten-present and the plain shape CeC- ?
Arnaud