Der Flexionsyp idg. *sḗh2-ṷr̥ ‚saure Flüssigkeit‘, *nḗbh-s n. ‚Gewölk‘
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Norbert Oettinger
Abstract
Lengthened grade of root syllables in PIE words was either motivated or came about by analogy. The adjective *sh2ur-ó- > *suh₂ro- > *sūro- ‘sour and liquid’ is derived from *sḗh2-ṷr̥n. ‘sour fluid’ (> Hitt. šēḫur ‘urine’). Here the motivation of the lengthened grade can be guessed: Cuneiform Luvian šiḫuwa- ‘sharp, acid’ < *sēh2ṷ̥o- can be explained as vṛddhi derivation from an earlier *séh2-u- ‘sourness, sharpness’. The noun *sḗh₂-ṷr̥ has probably been derived from *sēh2ṷo-. Hieroglyphic Luvian tipas ‘sky, heaven’ is best derived from a neuter s-stem *nḗbh-s n. ‘cloud(s)’. Probably there was an early PIE paradigm *nḗbh-s, gen. *nébh-s-s, whose genitive was soon replaced. Here we cannot know the motivation of the lengthened grade but it is likely that it was there. In consideration of this neuter stem *nḗbh-s it may well be that also the much disputed Old Irish word síd ‘fairy mound, peace’ goes back to a lengthened grade neuter s-stem *sḗd-s ‘domicile, seat’. The suffixal e-grade of neuter nouns in *-es/-os stems from the locative of the acrostatic type *nḗbh-s.
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