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Re: How obnoxious stem variation is likely to be retained?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, August 12, 2007, 8:25
Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> Hi! > > Andreas Johansson writes: > > Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>: > > > > > As I mentioned some time ago, I'm working, if fitfully, on pielang > (working > > > name: Wa). The sound-changes I've instituted, this far at least, are not > very > > > radical, but sometimes they conspire to make closely related forms > diverge > > > wildly. The case inspiring this post is this: PIE *kerd "heart" quite > > > regularly > > > yields Wa /Sard/, and the PIE genitive *krdos equally regularly yields Wa > > > /karado/. > > > > I just saw that Beekes gives the PIE nom. as *ke:rd (with long vowel), > which > > would yield Wa /Serd/, making /karado/ look even more anomalous. > > Very interesting forms. :-)
Thank you. I'll add some more forms at the end of this mail for your delectation. :)
> Given the right sound shifts (i.e., some with a well-defined time > frame and ordering), you could also regularise the stem at some point > in time and still get an irregular form, say /Sarado/, e.g. because > the stem /k/ regularise to /S/ at some point, but then, the shifts > went on.
I'm using VSCA to derive the Wa forms, so my sound-changes are by necessity well-ordered. /Serd/~/Sarado/ seems a more reasonable level of obnoxion, so I shall very probably decide on something much like it. I have not entirely decided on the case inventory of the language, but it will probably be nominative, vocative (sg only), accusative, genitive, and ablative-instrumental. Let's look at what I presently have for "father" (*pHte:r) and "wolf" (*wlkwos): : sg pl nom pater patara voc patar - acc patara patara gen patro patrom abl-ins patre patarabi : sg pl nom valapo valapuo voc valapa - acc valapom valapons gen valapo valapom abl-ins valapuod valapie Andreas