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Re: Need some help with terms: was "rhotic miscellany"

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, November 7, 2004, 8:20
Sally Caves wrote:

> What numerous posts, Joe? where? I may have erased most of them. I may > have been no-mail.
This one: ---- Okay, I've looked into it. 'Sit' and 'Set' both come from the IE root *sed. 'Sit' comes from a simple y-stem PG *sitjan>OE sittan > MnE sit. However, 'set' comes from the same root, plus the IE causative suffix '*-eyo'(cf. Sanskrit '-aya'). This suffix caused ablaut, creating the PIE stem *sodeyo-. In Germanic, *ei~*ey>*i ~*j was a sound shift, so we got PG *satjan, which, in West and North germanic, caused umlaut, so NWG *settan>OE settan>set. Roughly. The same goes for 'lie'. It comes, evidently enough, from the IE root '*legh', undergoing the same sound shifts: *leghyo->*ligjan>licgan>lie *logheyo->*lagjan>lecgan>lay