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

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.

      Andreas

Reply