u-stem, wa-stem, adjectives

[thiudans]

Hm. Not sure. Maybe I would do this: salus salwa-, falus falwa-...

Orel has *salwaz and *falwaz in PGmc, but for shadow he has *skaduz,
*skadwaz. He has for skaus *skawaz, for few *fauhaz or *fahwaz; but
*manwuz is a (w)u-stem. There is gothic farwa- (ns. farus?)
appearance, appearing in Orel as *farhwo'. Of course, Gothic *badus
has only common Gmc. precursor *badwo'. Also there is

*aiws (Mu/i) "age" < Gmc. *aiwaz
*arus (adj. wa) "quick" < Gmc. *arwaz

Unfortunately we never see *taihswa in a strong masculine nominative?



I would lean not toward unetymology because I have the information I
cannot avoid, nor pretend error or "casuality".



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
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> 
> 
> I'm very tentatively leaning towards *salwus, *falwus...
> 
> 
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@> 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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