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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, August 11, 2007, 20:13
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

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Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>