From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60856
Date: 2008-10-12
> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>It could be dialect IE, i.e. restricted to W IE, etc. If we're going to say that IE fell apart over a period of time, it's only natural that after one language left, that innovations and borrowings entered the rump of IE.
> Subject: Re: [tied] Present participle
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 5:47 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2008-10-12 00:48, Andrew Jarrette wrote:
> >
> .
> >
> > LIV identifies the protoform of <faveo:> with
> the _causative_ of
> *dHew-,
> > i.e. *dHow-éje/o- 'cause to move, push
> forward', which could easily
> > develop such figurative senses as 'promote'
> (note its etymology) or
> > 'cheer on, encourage'.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
>
>
> Oh, I see. But another question I have is, if a root is
> encountered
> only in Italic, Germanic, and Slavic, does that mean we
> should
> probably reject it as being from PIE? I personally feel
> that that is
> being rather harsh, especially when it is so easy for
> languages to
> lose items of vocabulary (cf. Modern English vs. Old
> English
> especially, but also many modern European languages
> compared with
> their ancestors). Is there another reason why you do not
> favour (a
> deliberate choice of word here) the idea of a PIE root
> *ghow- (etc.)
> besides the fact that if it occurred, it is only
> corroborated in
> Italic, Germanic, and Slavic?
>
>
> Andrew