* sakrodo:t()+

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:

>

>
> Aha. So it's the same formant as is used in the deverbal
> (collective?) adjectival formation in *-tó? I also think that that
> form is related to the so-called 't-stems', e.g. Latin sacerdo:s,
> sacerdo:tis < *sakro-do:-t-s < *sak(?)-r-o-dexW-t-. Is that what
> you're saying, here, as well?
>

I think that there was OL * do:to:r 'giver', and * sakrodo:to:r 'giver of the sacifice (to the gods)'. The cp. had dis. of r-r > r-0 in * sakrodo:tr+ > * sakrodo:t+ (such as gen. * sakrodo:tros > * sakrodo:tos). Although sometimes con. > * dHexY+ instead, I think it describes a reciprocal relationship sim. to Greek Do:sítheos.


The root * sak+ is identical to * kas+ 'cut' (as in cut > kill/sacifice > (be) sacred, etc.), since the order of C in a root, whether to each other or to V, didn't matter in PIE.