Some new words [*hliuth, hliuma]

[thiudans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > drunjus seems to have as much vocal association as saggweis, though
> the latter has been shown in sense of "vocal music". Is there a more
> neutral "noise" or "sound" word?
> 
> A bit speculative, but ON hljóð covers both the sense "hearing" (like
> Go. hliuma, man.), "silence" (in which to listen, to give someone a
> hearing); and "sound".  Could it be that Go. hliuma had this range of
> meanings too?  Or we could reconstruct *hliuþ, na. "sound".
>

I wonder if this is the same element in "awiliudon". Does this suggest
a tendency to elide h in h-initial clusters in compounds or after
vowels over lexemic boundaries?

this -ma in hliuma -- might it be of that PIE *-men nominal suffix?
Koebler has -ma-, -mo- "adjectives, substantives; rums, hilms" and
-man- "nomina actionis; namo, skeima".

ALso, Koebler has already reconstructed *hliuth "? got., st. N. ? nhd.
Gehör?, Schweigen?, Stille?, Aufmerksamkeit?; ne. hearing (N.) ?,
silence ?, quietness?, attention?; Vw.:s. hluth-?; E.: s. germ.
*hleutha-, Adj. hörend, still; vgl. idg. *klu-, V., Sb., hören, Ruhm,
*kel-, V. Sb. hören, Ruhm, Pk 605; Son.: HhGEW 47, wahrscheinlich
falsche Lesung für haunitha, Feist 264."



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