Re: leudh- > Germanic > OE leode

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: João S. Lopes Filho
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> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:55 PM
> > Subject: [tied] leudh- > Germanic > OE leode
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> > What's the Germanic reconstructed form for OE leode and another Germanic cognates (liud-,liot-, ljod-, etc) ???
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> The base is *(h1)leudH- > Gmc. *liud-, *liud-i- > OE le:od (f.), OS liud, OHG liut (m.), pl. liuti > Modern German Leute. Gothic preserves the related verb <liudan> 'grow, increase' = OE le:odan (*le:ad, ludon, -loden). Virtually identical nouns meaning "folk, nation" or providing a suppletive plural ("people") for "person, man" are also found in Slavic and Baltic (e.g. Polish pl. ludzie 'people' < sg. collective *ljudIje < *leudH-ejo-m).
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I think nobody has paid enough attention to the great similarity between the roots *(H1)leudh- and *teutéHa-, both meaning 'people'.

The alternation between *l/*t could be explained as being different reflexes of a former lateral affricate *tL. Starostin-Nikolayev's PNC *HittL'i:wV(-l/V) 'root, seed; kin' would fit nicely here.