Here, Hamp’s (1980) etymology of Gmc. *blōđ- ‘blood’ from a participial adjective *bhlō-tó-m ‘gushed, spurted’ from a State II *bhleh3
- that was left behind after the deletion of its head noun is accepted and reiterated. It is then shown that Gmc. *blōđ- ‘blood’ and blōtan ‘to worship,… read more
SUMMARY Suppletion is broadly defined to include a wide range of formal irregularities, e.g., nonce formations, zero-alternations, failures to extend base forms, heteroclites. As a process, it is shown to be recursive, to effect but a relatively restricted set of morpho-syntactic categories… read more