Re: THEORY: irregular conlangs

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> So, they come from different IE roots.  Nevertheless, *werg- and *wreg-
> are quite similar.  One wonders if one was originally a variant of the
> other?  To drive and to work are similar enough meanings ...
>
        According to the 1-vowel theory, triconsonnantal roots in PIE come from
biconsonnanntal roots added with a suffix, the root and the suffix
having both a variable vowel. So *werg- and *wreg- would come from
**w.r-.g, with the dot being e, o or the zero-vowel, and *werg- would
come from this radical with e-degree on the root and zero-degree on the
suffix, whereas *wreg- would come from the same, but with zero-degree on
the root and e-degree on the suffix. As far as I know, there are many
such pairs in PIE, as it is reconstructed at least. Now, let's try and
find a meaning for this root **w.r and the suffix **-.g... <GGG>

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