loss of intervocalic sigma
James Tauber
jtauber at jtauber.com
Fri Aug 30 10:20:19 EDT 2002
#58 mentions QE(S)OS and talks about why it doesn't become QOUS.
James
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:45:18 -0400, "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> said:
> At 11:42 AM +0000 8/30/02, James Tauber wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:42:56 -0400, "Carl W. Conrad"
> ><cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> said:
> >> I'm a bit (a great bit) confused by your question, particularly as
> >> concerns QEOS: there's no sigma in the stem there; it's a regular
> >> second-declension -O- stem and the -S is in fact the nominative sg. case
> >>ending.
> >
> >Smyth gives the original stem of QEOS as *QESO.
> >
> >I did deliberate whether to just put the stem as *QEO in my database -
> >it's always difficult to know how far to go back with the stem as one
> >would imagine a native speaker would have just viewed the stem as *QEO
> >and the form *QESO that Smyth gives is really only of historical
> >(pre-Homeric?) interest.
>
> Where did you find this in Smyth? It's in #120 (pp. 20-21), although
> there's some useful info bearing on your question there. I'm really
> curious
> about this and about the evidence for it; my impresssion is that this
> is
> not even an Indo-European root.
>
> Well, I may be wrong, but I really think that Smyth is wrong on this
> one--I
> don't think there's any evidence of a stem in QES for this noun; I
> frankly
> think that we would be seeing a declension of QEOS comparable to that
> of
> NOUS (NOUS, NOU, NWi, NOUN although NT Koine has heteroclitic forms:
> NOUS,
> NOOS, NOI, NOUN) or to OROS (stem ORES-): nom. OROS, gen. OROUS
> (<ORESOS),
> dat. OREI (<ORESI), acc. OROS.
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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