Re: Octha or Ohta?

W dniu 2012-02-08 19:19, stlatos pisze:

> Gmc.
> *xaizda- = hair
> vs.
> *xaizda- = flax fiber / etc.
>
> Exactly the same meaning range, but *kays- differs from *kas- in having
> an entire phoneme added WITHIN the word, not just a possible k vs kY
> (considering all the apparently irregular changes among them in families
> that differentiate them).

Except that the Gmc. word is actually *xazDa-/*xezDa(n)- in both
meanings (ON haddr 'long hair', OE pl. heordan 'hards of flax', etc.).
Cf. *xe:ra- 'hair', which in my opinion reflects *kes-ró-:

http://hdl.handle.net/10593/1990

> Yes; that's my point: he's wrong in exactly the way you are wrong, just
> more obviously so to you since you are incapable of seeing your mistakes.

No-one ever proposed that *deik^- and *deig^- had different meanings.
They were variously (and implausibly) treated as dialectal variants,
different suffixations etc., but not as different roots. *kes- and
*k^es- have different meanings and different conotations (*kes- may also
mean 'tidy up, arrange', and *k^es- 'destroy, kill'). If everyone but
you treats them as different rooots, it's for a variety of reasons, not
just because they are hard to connect formally.

Piotr