The kʷetwóres rule is a pre-Indo-European phonetic process in which the stress in three-syllable words of the form é-oX moved to the second syllable, which gave e-ó-X . The name is based on the result of this process in the word kʷetwóres “four”. The movement of the stress was preceded by the transition e> o in the stressed syllable, for example, kʷétweres > kʷétwores .
Examples:
- kʷétwores > kʷetwóres
- accusative singular:
- from r-bases: swés-or-m̥ > swes-ór-m̥ “sister”
- from r / n- heterocritic : ǵʰés-or-m̥ > ǵʰes-ór-m̥ “hand”
- from s-bases: h 2 éws-os-m̥ > h 2 ews-ós-m̥ “goddess of dawn”
The kʷetwóres rule was noticed by earlier researchers, but attracted wide attention much later - probably since 1985, when Helmut Rix referred to it ( German: Helmut Rix ). He also used this rule to explain the stress of the ó- step at the root of the Indo-European perfect (1998 preface to Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben , p. 22), for example, ǵé-ǵenh- / ǵé- ǵn̥h- > ǵe-ǵónh- / ǵé- ǵn̥h- ..
Mottausch ( German: Mottausch ) likewise explains the stress of the ó- step in the ablaut of the pre-Indo-European names .
Literature
- G. Klingenschmitt Die Lateinische Nominalflexion (1992), p. 44.
- M. Kümmel, Stativ und Passivaorist (1996), p. 9.
- K.-H. Mottausch, Die idg. Nominalflexion und die o-Stufe HS 113 (2000).
- K.-H. Mottausch, Die thematischen Nomina im Idg. HS 114 (2001).
- H. Rix, sūdor and sīdus in: FS Knobloch (ed. Ölberg, 1985), p. 348
- K. Stüber, Die primären s-Stämme (2002), p. 24f.