Re: Family terms [was: Kluge's Law in Italic?]

W dniu 2012-02-14 22:35, dgkilday57 pisze:

> I will look for these. In the meantime, Greek <stathmo's> 'stall' and
> Germanic *sto:d- 'stood' (and most likely Oscan <Staf[ii]anam> acc. sg.
> fem. 'Stabian, leading to Stabiae') show that the 'stand' root could be
> extended by *-dH-, so that those who object to *-dHlo- as a productive
> PIE suffix could simply segment the protoform of <stabulum> as
> *st&2dH-lo' (or as I prefer with *h4).

Germanic *sto:D- probably contains an old *t rather than *dH. My guess
is that it was somehow contaminated with a surviving reflex of *st&2tós
(cf. the ON past participle <staDinn>, which looks for all the world
like *st&tó- plus a secondary strong-verb suffix). Of the two
alternative present stems in Germanic, one (*stanD-i/a-) looks as if it
had been back-formed from the rest of the paradigm with a nasal infix,
the other (*staji-/*staja-) may be an old stative, *st&2-h1je/o-.

> Nothing to do with that Greek chestnut <he'bdomos> then?

That's unlikely. The pattern is different. The Greek adjective is
supposed to be analogical after 'eighth', and there is no voicing in
Slavic *osmI (which, by the way, has an analogical *m). There are also
other examples of *tl > *dl in Slavic, not involving the instrument-noun
suffix.

Piotr