Re: Dry, Dawn

On 2008-10-09 21:19, stlatos wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com <mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> I quoted it to refute yor counterexample, not to offer a
> > different analysis of the 'dawn' word. *h2seus- 'dry' is also accepted
> > in this shape by the LIV.
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> How would that give OE se:ar?

*(h2)sous-ó-, a different adjective from the same root (thus also in
Balto-Slavic). Ringe proposes *sausó-, with a fundamental *a (which
Lubotsky of course doesn't believe in), but I'm not convinced that
*saus-/*sus- is an acceptable ablaut pattern, and we definitely need
*sus- to account for some of the verb forms.

> There could have been metathesis of *sxausos > *x,sausos in every
> form and dialect, but if so, *asausos > *ahauhos > Hom auos and Att
> hauos (showing optional met. of medial h like heuo:, hieros) but no
> s>h after x in Laconian *asauhos > *azauos > addauos.

A derivative of <aza> 'heat, dryness' rather than anything directly to
do with <auos> (unless it's a compound of both.

Piotr