W dniu 2012-02-08 03:34, stlatos pisze:
> Though it makes little dif., they're from the same root; I don't know
> why'd you put 'rake, scrape' w 'comb' but not 'cut'.
First, because raking has more to do with combing than with reaping, and
a rake is more similar to a comb than to a scythe or a knife. Secondly,
the verb meaning 'comb' and its derivatives have no satemised reflexes
anywhere (and I don't mean only Balto-Slavic; in particular, Luwian has
initial /k-/ before a front vowel in <kisa:(i)-> 'comb'). Thirdly,
Slavic has parallel derivatives from *both* of them with completely
different meanings ('braided hair' vs. 'scythe'). There's no need to
lump them together, and my reference books, including LIV, don't do so.
> Dividing roots when the dif. is likely due to currently-unknown sound
> changes is wrong; it's how, for example, Buck put *taikna- w
> unknown/suffixed *digY- not *dikY-.
Buck happens to be wrong here. The modern revised formulation of Kluge's
Law takes care of *taikna- without any need to postulate *deig^- (which
would have had a prohibited root shape anyway).
Piotr