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BRIEF COMMUNICATION B H A D R A - ' H A P P Y , F A V O U R A B L E ' R. A. Fowkes, Studia Celtica 4, 1969, 74--5, has argued well to dissociate Welsh bodd 'will, goodwill, pleasure, satisfaction', Cornish both 'will', Irish buide 'satisfaction' from the root *bheudh- (IEW 151). Especially important is his observation that bodd is masculine, and therefore would not have terminated in *-d to give the condition for lowering *u to o. Thus he proposes to attach these to *bhod- > Goth. batiza-, ON beztr, OFris. bata 'advantage'; and he further compares Indic bhad-r6- and Avestan hu-ba6ra- 'happy'. However, at this point we must introduce a change in his argument to rectify faulty ablaut relations. The verb bh6ndate 'is happy' would then be a nasal present equivalent in formation to OIr. bongid 'breaks', i.e. *bha-n-d-. Thus bhad-r6- cannot then be *bhnd-, but must reflect *bhed-r6-. That is, we have zero-grade (with supply of automatic *e) *bhed-. This revises our inventory of Indo-Iranian roots. Dept. o f Linguistics, University o f Chicago, 1(910 East 59th Street, Chicago, Ill. 60637, U.S.A. ERIC P. HAMP lndo-lranian Journal 30 (1987), 175. 9 1987 by D. Reidel Publishing Company.
Indo-Iranian Journal – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987
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