CLAS 196 Indo-European

FINAL is due Tuesday May 5 at 4 PM: send it in by email

KNOWN ISSUES with the Final Exam:

Greek questions:

      1. Long/light
      2. Long/short
      3. Long/Heavy
      4. Long/stressed

Indic:

Germanic Questions

      1. Nasals were eliminated and replaced with compensatory lengthening
      2. Voiceless stops turned into voiceless fricatives
      3. Aspirates disappeared
      4. Voiced stops turned into voiced fricatives

Germanic Exercises 3e dewk- > tow, tug, etc.

I would approach it from both ends of Wiktionary as well as use Fortson: first, look at *dewk- in Wiktionary (not always easy to get to that: if you can’t, try tracking back from a descendant). Once you find the PIE root, look around and see the descendants such as tug, tow, zug, etc., and then look up each of the descendants. Click around to see how things developed from PIE to PGmc to …

 That should give you an idea of the paths you are trying to explain each step of.

Then look in Fortson for ways to explain each form or change.