Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 16, 2000, 19:24 |
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Roger Mills wrote:
>pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU writes:
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><< I remember being taught that the -n- of stand is an infix
> as well. >>
>As well as think-thought, bring-brought et al., similarly in German/Dutch
>that I know of- how about Swedish? Latin tangere-tactus et al. Greek?
>probably. Sanskrit has a class n-infixing verbs like (IIRC) root /ruc/
>'shine' > rinokti '3rd. sg.' So evidently of IE lineage, tho seemingly a
>marginal procedure even at that remove.
Don't know Swedish. Old Norse has thykkja-thotti; can't find bring.
In Norse, -nk- -> -kk-. This might be an interesting feature for the
IE conlangers amongst us to look into. The infix, that is. :)
Padraic.