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At 16:35 13/02/2004, Muke Tever wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:25:14 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email>
wrote:
> Firstly, for reasons I do not understand, Palmer indicates the stem as
> /*dye:u-/ (with a long diphthong) when talking about the nominative and
> accusative forms, but /*dyew-/ when talking about the genitive. I'm not
> sure why; I had thought the stem was a simple short diphthong: /eu/. Was
> there a different length in the nom. and acc.? It looks like /*gwou-/
> also had a different diphthong length in the nominative .....
This is a common pattern for root nouns in PIE. Note also po:t-s vs pod-
("foot") without diphthong, where it is regular (recomposed from **po:s)
Interesting. Is this lengthening then common in the nominative and accusative both, but not the other cases? Or usually just the nominative?
> And a paradigm that messy would be enough to make anyone pick a new stem
> :) Another problem perhaps was the nominative /i:us/ would have been too
> much like /*yewes-/ > /i:us-/ ("law")?
Or *yu:-s- > iu:s "broth" :)
Actually, a mighty god of broth or juice seems rather appealing :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Andersonhttp://www.carlaz.com/