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Publications of 1925, including LANGUAGE I

and LANGUAGE MONOGRAPH No. 1....$5.00

Publications of 1926, including LANGUAGE II,
Bulletin No. 1, and LANGUAGE MONO-
GRAPHS Nos. 2 and 3 ..

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MAURICE BLOOMFIELD: Indo-European ozdos, Greek öços, Germanic

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EDGAR H. STURTEVANT: Stems of the Hittite hi-Conjugation...
J. WHATMOUGH: On the Phonology of the Messapic Dialect .. 226
SAMUEL MOORE: Loss of Final n in Inflectional Syllables of Middle

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Founded 1924

OFFICERS FOR 1927

President, PROFESSOR CARL DARLING BUCK, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Vice-President, PROFESSOR EDGAR HOWARD STURTEVANT, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

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Executive Committee, the preceding, and

PROFESSOR EDWARD SAPIR, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

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INDO-EUROPEAN ozdos, GREEK öços, GERMANIC asts, etc.

MAURICE BLOOMFIELD

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

The Vedic hapax legomenon nişatsnú 'sitting in' does not, as is usually said, owe its rare suffix snu to a combination of the final s of sadas 'seat' with a suffix nu, but is an imitative congener of the pair sthāsnu (sthāṣṇu, sthāņu) ‘standing' and carişṇú 'walking', see AJ Ph 16.417. If we had in addition to these three a fourth congener *çayişņu 'lying', the lazychain would be complete: 'Don't walk, if you can stand; stand, if you can sit; sit, if you can lie!' To make up for the failure to complete this group, the RV has patayişṇú 'flying' which reflects patayantam in the stanza below. To match carişṇú TB has gamişņu 'going'. The preposition ni in nişatsnú adds, however, to the word the particular idea of 'nesting', 'nestling', German 'nisten'. It occurs in a charm for the safe delivery of a woman, RV 10.162.3 (MG 2.18.2), where the various postures and movements of the embryo in the womb are compared with the actions of a bird in the nest:

yás te hánti patáyantam nişatsnúṁ yáḥ sarīsṛpám,
jātáṁ yás te jíghāñsati tám itó nāçayāmasi.

'(The demon) who seeks to slay thy flying, nesting, or hopping (foetus), or (the child) when born, that (demon) do we drive out from here.' The words sarisrpám and patáyati occur also in connection at AV 19.48.3; the natural contrast between the two implies the rendering 'hopping' rather than 'creeping' for the intensive sarīsṛpá. In any case nişatsnú, as well as other combinations of ni+sad (yónış ța indra nişáde akāri, RV 1.104.1), reflects nīḍá 'nest', IE ni-zd-o- 'place to sit in'.

With IE ni-zd-o-s 'nest' rimes IE o-zd-o-s 'ast'. The fonetics of the latter are perfectly well understood, the meaning not at all. For *ozdos does not mean 'appendage', 'ansatz' but 'place to sit on', 'perch', just as *nizdos means 'place to sit in'. RV 10.43.4, váyo ná vṛkşám āʼsadan, analyzes the idea formally and functionally. Both *nizdo

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