u-stem, wa-stem, adjectives

[llama_nom]

I'm very tentatively leaning towards *salwus, *falwus...


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the best way to reconstruct
> hypothetical Gothic cognates for English 'sallow' and 'fallow'?  Pure
> u-stems: *salus (cp. skadus < *skadwaz)?  Wa-stems: *salws?  Or
> u-stems from original wa-stems with -w- retained as part of the stem:
> *salwus (cp. manwus)?  And is it significant that the surviving
> wa-stem adjectives have long roots -- CVCC (triggws), CVCV (lasiws) --
> or a monosyllabic root ending in a short vowel: CV (*faus, *qius,
> *unskaus)?
> 
> LN
>


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