Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-dʰrom
Proto-Indo-European
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editVariant of *-trom.
Sometimes hypothesized to have developed from assimilation to a preceding voiced aspirate[1] (compare Bartholomae's law in Indo-Iranian). Sihler describes this as the usual explanation and considers it "the only remotely plausible" one if the *t- forms of the suffix are original, but says it is problematic, noting that this form of the suffix is not attested in contexts like Greek λέκτρον (léktron) (from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-) even though, under this hypothesis, the *-dʰ-initial variants would have originated in words like this.[2]
Based on the contexts in which it occurs, Olsen 1988 argues that it actually originated from coalescence of a voiceless laryngeal (*h₁ or *h₂) with the following *-t-, initially resulting in a voiceless aspirate, which is proposed to have merged with the outcome of voiced aspirates in the languages in which this allomorph is attested.[3]
Suffix
edit*-dʰrom n
- Alternative form of *-trom
Inflection
editThematic | |||
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singular | |||
nominative | *-dʰrom | ||
genitive | *-dʰrosyo | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *-dʰrom | *-dʰroy(h₁) | *-dʰreh₂ |
vocative | *-dʰrom | *-dʰroy(h₁) | *-dʰreh₂ |
accusative | *-dʰrom | *-dʰroy(h₁) | *-dʰreh₂ |
genitive | *-dʰrosyo | *? | *-dʰroHom |
ablative | *-dʰread | *? | *-dʰromos |
dative | *-dʰroey | *? | *-dʰromos |
locative | *-dʰrey, *-dʰroy | *? | *-dʰroysu |
instrumental | *-dʰroh₁ | *? | *-dʰrōys |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ The Proto-Indo-European Instrument Noun Suffix *-tlom and its Variants, Birgit Anette Olsen, 1988. §0.2 page 4
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 201
- ^ Olsen, 1988. §9, pages 37-38