Talk:πάσχω
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Mahagaja in topic Etymology
Etymology[edit]
A root of the type **kʷendʰ- violates PIE root constraints. Beekes instead lists *bʰendʰ-, which makes better sense under Grassman's law. Anglom (talk) 15:42, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- I assume you mean the constraint described in the second paragraph at w:Proto-Indo-European root#Further restrictions? --WikiTiki89 15:47, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- It is indeed. Thank you for linking it. Anglom (talk) 15:51, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- Pinging @GuitarDudeness as the one who first added this etymology and @Erutuon as the one who expanded it. --WikiTiki89 16:01, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- It is indeed. Thank you for linking it. Anglom (talk) 15:51, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
@Anglom, Wikitiki89, GuitarDudeness, Erutuon: Our etymology lists a Lithuanian kenčiù as a cognate, but Matasović,[1] while also giving the root form as *kʷendʰ-, gives the Lithuanian cognate as kentù. If kentù is right, then couldn't the root have been *kʷentH-? That would explain the voiceless t of Lithuanian as well as the aspirated θ of Greek while still obeying PIE root constraints, right? I don't know very much about Lithuanian historical phonology. —Mahāgaja · talk 07:58, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷend-s-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 176