Re: Schwebeablaut (was Re: tolkien?)

Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:

> Hallo!
>
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:05:23 -0500,
> Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:01:47 -0800, Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Something like 'sound association' happens in
> > > Silindion, my main project. There are groups of roots
> > > which have similar meanings and sound.
> >
> > It is *fairly* obvious (to me) that this is the case for a number of PIE
> > roots, too. The most well-known example is uerg^/ureg, but possibly also
> > perk^/prek^ and several others. I used to have a file of all the ones I'd
> > identified, but it is escaping me at the moment. They're almost always of
> > the form CeRC/CReC, sometimes CeHC/CHeC.
>
> These are indeed quite common in PIE, common enough to have a terminus
> technicus for this phenomenon: it is called Schwebeablaut.
> The origin might have been a difference in accent position:
>
> *CáRaC > *CeRC
> *CaRáC > *CReC
>
> I am planning to use Schwebeablaut in my IE-related conlang family
> "Hesperic", though I don't know yet what exactly to do with it.
What's the reason to reconstruct with a's rather than as CéreC and CeréC?

                                                       Andreas

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