Re: park, was *pVs- for cat

At 10:26:26 AM on Monday, September 19, 2011, Torsten wrote:

>> 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- ?

Yes.

> Thanks for pointing that out.

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

To be honest, I've not paid any attention to them, so I have
no opinion.

Brian