From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 63809
Date: 2009-04-15
>Yes, I have asked about this....
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:
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> > Thanks a lot, but I have asked about the long vowel in the root
> >
> > Nom.: R(o:)-ending
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> > Sorry my mistake not to explain well...
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> Ha ha! You made me laugh with that one -- all that work!
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> Anyway, I'm not sure what noun class you mean: do you mean o-stems with long o: in the root? Or do you mean consonant stems with long o: in the root? The latter are not infrequent, as an original *o was lengthened in the monosyllabic nominative before the *-s ending. In Sanskrit, such nouns have <a:> throughout the nominative, accusative, and vocative, while the other cases either maintain an unlengthened <a>, or generalize the <a:> of the nominative. The archetypes of these are <pa:t> "foot" for the former type and <va:k> "voice" for the latter type. Similar is <ga:us> "ox" which has <gav-> in inflected forms other than the nom., acc., or voc. (before vowels), and which would have been PIE *gWo:us, inflected *gWow-. The Greek word for foot, <poús, gen. sg. podós>, has a spurious diphthong in the nom. sg. whose origin I don't think has ever been satisfactorily explained. However the Greek word (Homeric) <dô> "house" has a regularly lenghthened o: from original *o in a monosyllable (*dom). I don't know its declension apart from the accusative sg. and the nom./acc. sg. are the same as the nom. sg.
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