Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine, edited by Dieter Gunkel, Stephanie W. Jamison, Angelo Mercado, and Kazuhiko Yoshida, 2018
This paper argues for the existence of a dissimilation of the first of two aspirated consonants i... more This paper argues for the existence of a dissimilation of the first of two aspirated consonants in pre-Latin when the first was immediately followed by r. The examples and potential counterexamples are examined and special attention is given to the case of trahere and its Germanic cognates. The Old Irish verb tráigid and related forms are also examined.
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of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European lexeme *ieuos and its variants. I hope to show that the meaning of this form was not specifically ‘barley’, as is often suggested, but a more general term ‘cereal’. I also examine the morphology of the reflexes of this family of forms particularly in Anatolian, Greek, and Tocharian
In this paper I examine the evidence for a sound change *ow > *aw in Venetic. I identify three potential examples, the river name Plavis < *plowis, the Venetic personal name hostihavos and the river name Dravus. I also discuss the river name Savus but conclude it need not be explained by Venetic phonology. I also examine the evidence for apparent retained *ow and suggest that these are the result of a later change of *ewV to owV.
The plough is one of the key pieces of pre-modern agriculture technology. This paper addresses the following questions: (a) Assuming a bifurcating tree with a node Proto-Northwest-Indo-European (PNWIE) dominating Proto-Germanic (PGmc.) and Proto-Italo-Celtic (PIC), what can be reconstructed, if anything, for the plough lexicon at each node? (b) what innovations can be identified at each stage? (c) what are the sources of these innovations? (d) to what extent, if any, do non-Indo-European substratal languages play a role? The upshot of this analysis will be that the plough terminology is exclusively made up of Indo-European material. The three items of the plough lexicon below the head term *h2erh3trom that it may be possible to reconstruct for PNWIE are (1) *̯uogwhmnis- ‘share’ (Lat. uōmer, ON vangsni, OHG waganso; Gk. ὀφνίς, OPr. wagnis); (2) *gw(e)u̯ so- ‘curved plough pole’ based on the agreement of Lat. būris, būra (← Sabellic) and Gk. γύης, although this item may result from parallel independent specialization; (3) *seg̑hetleh2 ‘plough handle’ (Gk. ἐχέτλη, ModW. haeddel).
of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European lexeme *ieuos and its variants. I hope to show that the meaning of this form was not specifically ‘barley’, as is often suggested, but a more general term ‘cereal’. I also examine the morphology of the reflexes of this family of forms particularly in Anatolian, Greek, and Tocharian
In this paper I examine the evidence for a sound change *ow > *aw in Venetic. I identify three potential examples, the river name Plavis < *plowis, the Venetic personal name hostihavos and the river name Dravus. I also discuss the river name Savus but conclude it need not be explained by Venetic phonology. I also examine the evidence for apparent retained *ow and suggest that these are the result of a later change of *ewV to owV.
The plough is one of the key pieces of pre-modern agriculture technology. This paper addresses the following questions: (a) Assuming a bifurcating tree with a node Proto-Northwest-Indo-European (PNWIE) dominating Proto-Germanic (PGmc.) and Proto-Italo-Celtic (PIC), what can be reconstructed, if anything, for the plough lexicon at each node? (b) what innovations can be identified at each stage? (c) what are the sources of these innovations? (d) to what extent, if any, do non-Indo-European substratal languages play a role? The upshot of this analysis will be that the plough terminology is exclusively made up of Indo-European material. The three items of the plough lexicon below the head term *h2erh3trom that it may be possible to reconstruct for PNWIE are (1) *̯uogwhmnis- ‘share’ (Lat. uōmer, ON vangsni, OHG waganso; Gk. ὀφνίς, OPr. wagnis); (2) *gw(e)u̯ so- ‘curved plough pole’ based on the agreement of Lat. būris, būra (← Sabellic) and Gk. γύης, although this item may result from parallel independent specialization; (3) *seg̑hetleh2 ‘plough handle’ (Gk. ἐχέτλη, ModW. haeddel).