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

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> 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/.
>
> Naturally, I'm considering whether I should replace the later form with
> analogical /Sardo/. I do quite like irregular paradigms with historical
> explanations, but I worry whether this case would stretch believability. What
> say ye sages? :)
Prehaps you could use partial analogy. *kerd > /Sard/, *krdos > /Sarado/
(or *ke:rd > /Serd/, *krdos > /Serado/. This kind of thing happens from
time to time; iirc en. "keep"~"kept" is an example, where "kept" was
formerly "kep" (before "dream"~"dreamt" /i:/~/e/ etc. came about,
obviously given the latter's regionality).

--
Tristan.

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