Terra wrote:- I really want to see some frequency data (that also notes phoneme position in the root). Are the root forms *degh and *dheg really so rare? If they are, I haven't noticed it.
For totally different reasons (tense stem distribution of verbal stems), I once made an Excel sheet of the roots in LIV (Lexikon der Indogermanischen Verben) and one thing I included was the root structure, probably because I was bored.
I made a quick count of the root structures and came up with the following (all possible errors and miscounts henceforth are mine, not LIV's):
T...K: 80
T...G: 40
T...Gh: 13 (7 uncertain)
D...K: 11 (3 uncertain)
D...G: 1 (*g
weh
2b-, which looks suspect, because /b/)
D...Gh: 22
Dh...K: 9 (8 uncertain, only certain example is *b
hrek
w-)
Dh...G: 32
Dh...Gh: 41
If we look strictly at the CeC-roots (which are quite rare by themselves, only 26 of these type in LIV and 43 in Pokorny), we get the following picture:
TeK: 16 (Pokorny: 13)
TeG: 2 (8)
DeK: 1 (5)
DeGh: 2 (4)
DheG: 4 (4)
DheGh: 5 (8)
(Pokorny also mentions 1 DeG-root: *bed-)
(Pokorny counts are from here:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ ... ter-X.html)
(BTW I didn't count roots with an s-mobile)
Make of this what you will. Please note that the LIV-data only contain verbal roots.