--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2008-10-09 21:19, stlatos wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > 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.
Beekes cites Lubotsky in KZ 98:1-10 (which I have not had occasion to
see) to the effect that *h2sus- comes from a perfect participle of
*h2es- 'to be dry' whose reduplicated form *h2eh2s- appears in Latin
<a:reo:> 'I am dry'. If such a participle was parallel to those in
Sanskrit the weak stem should have been *h2eh2sus-. Is this stem
supposed to have been reinterpreted as the perfect stem of *h2seus-,
generating the latter as an independent root? Or was *h2sus- formed
directly from *h2es- with the element *wes-/us- as a modal indicating
persistence? That appears to be the situation with Greek <aguiá:>
*h2g^-us-yáh2 'way, road, street'; a way leads travelers
persistently, not just once.
DGK