CC-reduplication

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CC-reduplication

Regarding putative laryngeal-consonant reduplication in ἤγαγον (ḗgagon), I had encountered a mention of it in Roland Pooth's article on PIE verbal morphology, on pp. 22-28 where he discusses reduplication. However, it seems he was only discussing reduplication of *h₁s- (= *ʔ_s- invalid IPA characters (_) in his notation), not *h₂C-. However, he describes *CeC- reduplication, which could apply to *h₂eǵ-. But not sure if the formation he describes would yield *e-h₂(e)ǵ-h₂(e)ǵ-om = ἤγαγον (ḗgagon) with the appropriate meaning.

Eru·tuon20:52, 7 April 2016

The normal kind of reduplication only copies the first consonant. The consonant is s, the next consonant is also copied. This wouldn't give the Greek form, no, but I don't know what does.

CodeCat21:06, 7 April 2016

Note that he also mentions *CeC- reduplication. That looks more like ἤγαγον (ḗgagon), but may not be quite identical in details of form or meaning. I'm going to see if I can find a description of the verb in Sihler, which I got ahold of finally.

Eru·tuon21:43, 7 April 2016