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

W dniu 2012-02-21 21:29, dgkilday57 pisze:

> Note also Greek <órthros> 'cockcrow, the moment before the Sun appears'
> (Hesiod, Phrynichus), otherwise 'dawn, early morn'. This has zero-grade
> of the root *h3er- 'to make rise'.

But, unlike the nomina instrumenti in *-tRo-, which are all either
neuter or feminine (old collectives absorbed into the feminine gender),
it's masculine, so it isn't likely to be the same formation.

> Likewise <árthron> 'joint' has zero-grade of *h2/4er- 'to join'.

Not that it matters, but why not full-grade?

> Also <báthron> 'threshold, step,
> ladder', since it goes with <baíno:> 'I go, walk, step', has zero-grade
> of *gWem-, not a laryngeal-final root.

*gWem- and *gWeh2- (Skt. pres. jíga:ti, Gk. aor. ébe:) etc.are
synonymous roots. Both are found in Greek, Armenian, Indo-Iranian and
Baltic (at least), so <báthron> could easily be analysed as *gWah2-trom
à la mode d'Olsen.

Piotr