Re: s->h

<lorad474@xxxxxx> wrote
On Feb 15, 5:49 pm, "John Atkinson" <johna...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Latin noun "passus" comes from Old Latin "padtus" by the regular
sound change "-dt-" > "-ss-" . That is, "pad-" stretch" with suffix
"-t-" denoting verbal action (the stretch of the legs in walking). The
verb "pandere", stretch, bend (PP "passus") is cognate. "Pad-" and
"pand-" apparently come from PIE "*pandos", bent (as does Old Norse
fattr).

Wouldn't *pedtus seems a more sensible term for walking?

If you're meaning PIE *ped-tus, where *ped- means fall, the Latin derivative pessus means "on the ground".

The PIE root *ped- means fall (> Sanskrit padyate, falls, OCS pado, I fall, Russian padat', to fall ) and also foot (> *pedom, footprint, track > Latin peda, sole, footprint, Sanskrit padam, track, OCS podu, ground, and Russian pod, hearth -- also the preposition pod, under, I suspect).

It seems to me that PIE *pa(n)d- and *ped- (and also *pent, find one's way) were different roots, and that the resemblances in form and meaning of many of their derivatives is coincidental. But maybe some of the experts around here could comment on this.

John.

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