Re: Gmc. w-/g-, j-/g-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:

> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:

> > > This uvular R usually > r in historical Gmc. Also, at:
> > >
> > > http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/piep07.html
> > >
> > > Winfred P. Lehmann, when discussing OHG r-preterites says: "The sequence assumed here for seventh class verbs is PIE /eXw/ [eXu], for first class verbs /yX/ [iX]. I suggest that in these sequences the laryngeals were preserved, and that their reflexes fell into the OHG r-phoneme."
> > >
> > > (note: Lehmann uses X to symbolize any "laryngeal"; I use it for the uvular fricative)
> > >
> > >
> > > He's on the right track, but only xW > XW and x() > X() by w, etc., underwent it, and only optionally X>R>r (scrían is probably from onom. * sqRiX- w/in Gmc, and has nothing to do with PIE yx).
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> > Let's examine each group to see where Lehmann makes his mistakes:

In blótan, bléot (pt 3s) OE; bluozan, plioz (pt 3s) pleruzzun (pt 3p) = sacrifice OHG; an alt. of -ax- vs -e(w)u- \ -eru- must be due to reduplication (the source of -e- in those just discussed):

*
bHebHláGde
bHlebHáGde
bHlebHáGde bHlebH-G-d+ (strong ana> weak stem)

*
bHlebH-G-d+
bHlebH-u-d+
bHleß-u-d+
bHleB-u-d+
bHleB-u-d+ bHlew-u-d+
bHleR-u-d+ bHlew-u-d+
bHleR-u-d+ bHle_-u-d+
bHleR-u-d+ bHle:u-d+
bHleR-u-d+ bHleu-d+


with the b/r alt. seen in Fenrir, Fáfnir, etc., among others mentioned.