Re: tolkien?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 14, 2003, 1:01 |
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:01:47 -0800, Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
wrote:
> Something like 'sound association' happens in
> Silindion, my main project. There are groups of roots
> which have similar meanings and sound.
It is *fairly* obvious (to me) that this is the case for a number of PIE
roots, too. The most well-known example is uerg^/ureg, but possibly also
perk^/prek^ and several others. I used to have a file of all the ones I'd
identified, but it is escaping me at the moment. They're almost always of
the form CeRC/CReC, sometimes CeHC/CHeC.
What bugs the heck out of me is that although many of these root-pairs are
obviously semantically connected, the exact meaning of the Re/eR
alternation seems to be lexical rather than predictable.
Paul
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