Intensive Reduplication

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Nath and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Vidhyanath Rao <vidynath at math.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 7:15 AM

Pat, previously:

>> However, if you are suggesting that IE *yeu- should be recontructed as
>> *Hyeu-, I believe that unlikely.

Nath wrote:

> So how do you explain Greek zugon?

Pat answers:

I do agree that the likeliest explanation for the [z] of zugon is that it
results from an initial *Hy- but I would like to ask the following
questions.

1) Obviously, *Heyew  is not a canonical IE root form.

2) Would you consider the original root *Hey- and -w a root extension?

3) Would you consider the possibility that the root is *yew- and that *He is
a preverb which may or may not have been present in the earliest IE?

I have no answers for these questions myself, and I am only interested in
your opinion.

Pat

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