Re: park, was *pVs- for cat

> Perfectly normal in Germanic. Six others:

> *libnō- 'be left over',
> *libjanaN 'to live';

> *fra-luznō- 'become lost',
> *fra-leusanaN 'to lose';

> *þurznō- 'to dry out (intr.), wither',
> *þersanaN 'to dry out' (trans.);

> *ga-sturknō- 'to dry up (intr.), thicken',
> *ga-sterkanaN 'to cause to harden';

> *waknō- 'to wake up (intr.)',
> *wakjanaN 'to wake (someone) up; to be awake';

> *liznō- 'to learn',
> *laizijanaN 'to teach'.

> The pair

> *warnō- 'to take heed; to warn',
> *warjanaN 'to protect'

> fits the pattern well.

So you're saying there are two suffixes in play here

*-nó:- and *´-(j)a-n- ?

Thanks for pointing that out.

Would you say the correspondences to *war- and *war-Vn- outside Germanic which Tavi pointed out are spurious then?



Torsten