... I am sure that any problem is mine, or my confusion -- or else things have been so redefined that the sentence "the past is never unmarked" no longer ...
... The tenseless (non-reporting) "injunctive" form *bHer-e-t is all that we need as the pivot of the change. With the appropriate tense markers it becomes a...
... be a ... Hello Abdullah, yes I had written that word in Greek letters. Do you see any relation to the other Albanian word <stridhë> 'oyster', Greek...
I've propagated this idea before, I've added a few details now. Leaving the plain velars aside, which I think occur only in loans, PIE has palatal velars, /k^/...
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... If you insist... The s ~ s^ alternation in Slavic (as in Russ. pisát' 'to write' : pís^et) results from the fact thet the verbs in this conjugation had ...
... Does the -j- appear tangibly in any Slavic representative of that paradigm, or only as palatalization of the preceding consonant? ... And ditto? Torsten...
Question: So if kentum/satem are built-in, does that presuppose an entire dichotomy of palatal/velar stops (and maybe others)? If so, would IE look closer to...
r, syllabic r r. retroflex r R voiceless r T voiceless interdental fricative G voiced velar fricative I suspected the existence of a retroflex series of ...
... The sequences *-rj-, *-lj-, *-nj-, *-Vj- remained unchanged in that paradigm (Leskien's 3rd conjugation); the contrast between *-r-je- and *-r-e- etc. is...
Jaan Puhvel explained Solar Russian God Daz^bog < Daz^dIbogU < *Da:dhi-bhagos "Give Fortune", comparing it to Vedic epiclesis da:ta vasu 'giver of goods',...
... *Da:dhi-bhagos "Give Fortune", Russ. daz^(I) cannot be derived directly from *doh3-dHi, but reflects the Slavic imperative *dadjI. The "regularly expected"...
... Labiovelar/velar and velar/palatal. That was my idea, but it seems to be a hard sell;-) It would explain the whole centum/satem split-up much easier. ... ...
Is there any explanation for why varn.a (caste) has this retroflex R ? Why not varna? Joao SL ... Você quer respostas para suas perguntas? Ou você sabe muito...
Greek eao:n < *wesawo- ? ... *h1wé:su (*h1wésw-) 'good'. Piotr ... Yahoo! Search Música para ver e ouvir: You're Beautiful, do James Blunt Greek eao:n <...
... Yes. *s (of any origin) and *x (usually from *s in RUKI contexts) yield *s^ when followed by *j, and *z (from *g^(H)) yields *z^ in the same position. This...
Could Greek eu- good, be a merging of *h1esu- and *h1we:su- ? *h1wé:su (*h1wésw-) 'good'. feabhas, feobhas goodness, "betterness", Irish feabhus, Old Irish...
... Oops! It's a case of grammatical transfer my native Polish (<woz.a,>, <nosza,>). I wonder which variant is older within Slavic (neither is the direct...
... The so-called "nati" rule in Sanskrit makes any /n/ retroflex if preceded by /r/ (also syllabic /r./) or /s./. The rule is non-local, which means that it...
... Now suppose I claim PPIE 1 sg *prakam 3 sg *prakat -> PIE *prokõ *proc^it (with ablaut vowel -> i) -> *pros^õ *prosit How should that be refuted then? ...
... Or, to be more precise, *h1sú- and *h1wésu-. It could, though there are no unambiguous traces of the expected digamma. In a few words Greek seems to have...
So, would this alternation point to *h1Wesu-/h1Wsu- ? ... Or, to be more precise, *h1sú- and *h1wésu-. It could, though there are no unambiguous traces of...
... I stand instructed. So, let me see if I got this straight: The causative suffix *-ejo-/*-eje- assumes the special form *-jo-/*-i:-, of which the first has...
... -k^-, to form -s^- and -s-, respectively ... What refutes your suggestion is rather the fact that there's no *s^ : *s alternation before the thematic vowel...
... I wouldn't say so. It's quite imaginable that *h1wesu- was reduced to *h1su- (and even further to *su- in some positions). It would hardly be economic to...
Reduced form of *h1wesu- would be *h1usu-, wouldn't it? ... I wouldn't say so. It's quite imaginable that *h1wesu- was reduced to *h1su- (and even further to...
... The fundamental vocalism of this adjective is long, *h1wé:su-, and *h1wésu- is already the weak counterpart thereof. Any further reduction is only...
