Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

On 2008-11-11 08:49, Brian M. Scott wrote:

> >> [PG:] There could be no original Brugmannian lengthening in
> >> such roots as *h2weks- (= *hweg-s-),
>
> > [TP:] That's a possible generalization of an s-aorist of *awg-
> > which is a class VI verb.
>
> No, it's Class VII: *aukanã, *eauk, *eaukun, *aukanaz (ON
> <auka>, <jók>, <jóku>, <aukinn>; Goth. <aukan>, <aíauk>,
> <aíukum>, <aukans>).

_And_, if it had an s-aorist in PIE (cf. Lat. auxi:), it was
*h2e:ug-s-/*h2aug-s-. How does one get the pattern of *faranã, *fo:r,
*fo:run, *faranaz as a generalisation of that?

Piotr