Talk:Proto-Indo-European noun

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Can anyone give a quick summary of what these terms mean? acro-dynamic, protero-dynamic, hystero-dynamic and holo-dynamic.

this isn't covered yet, on Wikipedia, you'll need to turn to actual books. Briefly, it concerns the position of a word's accent, and hence ablaut grade, within the inflectional paradigm (different stresses in different grammatical cases). dab (š’³) 11:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] accent classes

  • proterodynamic = "moving accent, towards the front" = accent varies between root and suffix
  • hysterodynamic = "moving accent, towards the back" = accent varies between suffix and ending
  • holodynamic = "moving accent, across the whole word" = accent varies between root and ending
  • acrostatic = "stationary accent, on the root"

when the accent varies, the strong cases (nom and voc, plus acc sing/dual) have the further-front variant and the weak cases have the further-back variant.

Beekes seems to believe that holodynamic words had accents in three places: HEUS-oos (nom), hus-OS-m (acc), hus-s-OS (gen) "dawn". Fortson gives these as HEUS-oos, HEUS-os-m, hus-s-ES. (h = h2, oo = long vowel)


Benwing 05:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] unclear table

Some information on why the table is missing so much forms, why there is a list of forms that are neither thematic nor athematic and why thematic feminine and a big part of neuter are not present, would make things clearer. ā€”Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.253.146 (talk) 18:38, 9 September 2007 (UTC)