Re: CV metathesis Q
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 25, 2008, 16:16 |
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Hallo!
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:08:36 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> Jörg Rhiemeier skrev:
> > Hallo!
> >
> > This discussion reminds me of a well-known phenomenon in
> > Proto-Indo-European: "Schwebeablaut". Some roots in PIE
> > show an alternation between the type *CReC- and the type
> > *CeRC-, e.g. *deiw- ~ *dyew- 'sky, god'.
> >
> > ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf
> >
>
> Called _samprasarana_ [s@mpr@'sA:r@n`@] 'drawing asunder'
> in Sanskrit, which perhaps is a more convenient word in
> English (heck, you already borrowed _svarabhakti_,
> and _sandhi_...)
It doesn't surprise me at all that the Sanskrit grammarians
had a word for it. What regards the putative origins of
schwebeablaut: it is zero grade on first vs. second syllable
of an original bisyllabic form *CVRVC-, or so say the
Indo-Europeanists, according to what I seem to remember
reading somewhere.
... brought to you by the Weeping Elf