Re: Draw, correction

At 2:21:41 AM on Friday, October 24, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

>> Recall that the Germanic class VI strong verbs have PIE
>> (supposedly) -a-/-o:-/-o:-/-a- where more predictable
>> Germanic verbs (Class I - III) have PIE
>> -e-/-o-/zero/zero. The Germanic verb 'dragan' is a class
>> VI verb. As claimed above, we have reason to suspect it
>> is a Venetic verb. We also have reason to suspect that
>> Venetic (or Old Europen) was a non-ablauting a-language,
>> so that a verb in place of the PIE -e-/-o-/zero/zero
>> pattern would have -a-/-a-/-a-/-a-. If we assume it had
>> Brugmann lengthening in the 3sg perf., and generalized
>> that to all persons and [correction] numbers
>> [/correction], it would have -a-/-a:-/-a:-/-a-. And if
>> that was loaned into Germanic before that had a: > o:
>> (which must have happened when e: > a:, cf Swe:w- >
>> Swa:w-), then it would have the pattern
>> -a-/-o:-/-o:-/-a-, which is exactly Germanic class VI.

But *e:-lowering isn't Gmc.: it's NWGmc. (cf. Goth.
<le:tan>, but ON <la:ta>, OHG <la:zzan>, OE <læ:tan>). And
Gothic has Class VI strong verbs.

Brian