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77 F Kortlandt

THE TOCHARIAN WORD FOR WOMAN

Consider the followmg paradigms

A B A B

sg nom sarp sana wife Ιζ,Μ klyiye, kliye woman obl sarn sano Ic^le klain, klaim, klai

pl nom snu snona k^leuiäß klaina

obl inäs Snona (Q,lemäs klaina

I agree with K T Schmidt that the word for woman must be denved from the word for wife with dissimilation of the radical nasal to -I-before a suffixal nasal (1980 410) For a similar dissimilation cf Lith glinda nit <. *gninda I disagree with Schmidt s view that the two words represent different stem forms of the same paradigm, to be compared with Arm kin < *gwena, pl kanay- < *g™nai-, Gr γυνή, gen γυναικός These forms must probably be denved from an original proterodynamic neuter paradigm, PIE nom acc *g"enHj gen -abl *g"neH2s, dat loc *g"neHzi (cf Beekes 1985 167) The Toch word for

woman is rather a derivative of this root For the denvation cf Slovene zena wife , z^nski female (adj) , z^nska woman , and the Enghsh noun female Thus, we may look for an adjectival suffn which yields the proper output when added to the root

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VI,2 at an earlier stage and was later transferred to Ciass 11,1 because of its meaning" (1986: 218, also 333). I think that this is quite correct, but one may wonder if it is compatible with his conclusion that -iye- is "an intruder in Class VI,2, it seems to be more at hörne in Ciass VI,l" because

"-iye in its naturai element (Class V I , l ) had a palatalizing effect, but when

transferred to a foreign flexional category (Class VI,2) -iye had no such effect" (1986: 229). Thus, we have to account for the palatalizing effect of -iye in the word for "woman".

Hilmarsson has convincingly argued that the ending -(iy)e must be derived frotn *-(iy)en (1986: 231-236). The problem with the word for "woman" is that there is no obvious reason for the loss of the root-final laryngeal of *g"nH1- before this ending. On the one hand, *H, is not lost

before *i, cf. especially A $ne, B snai "without" < PIE. *snH,i, Latin sine. On the other hand, *Ha colors a following *e to *a, so that palatalization

cannot take place. Thus, we must look for a suffix before which *H, is lost. The only possibility I can think of is *-H,en-, *-H,n- (cf. Beekes 1985: 53), which fits perfectly. Assuming that *Η, was lost before *H,, I arrive at the following reconstruction:

stage I stage II stage III stage IV

»Ο'ΊΐΗ,-Η,βη *nH,en *k"lye klyiye »g-ηΗ,-Η,η- *k"IH,n- *k"lan-

klaln-For the Substitution of -iye, -ain- for *-e, *-an- I refer to Hilmarsson (I.e.) and for the vocalization of *H, äs -a- to Klingenschmitt (1975:

161-162).

Frederik Kortlandt Cobetstraat 24

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References Beekes, R. S. P.

1985 The origins of the Indo-European nominal inflection. Innsbruck.

Hilmarsson, J.

1986 Studies in Tocharian phonology, morphology and etymology, with special emphasis on the o-vocalism. Diss. Leiden. Reykjavik.

Klingenschmitt, G.

1975 Tocharisch und Urindogermanisch. Flexion und Wortbildung, p. 148-163. Wiesbaden.

Schmidt, K. T.

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