Re: [tied] *kuningaz (again)

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:49:14 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>*lIgota, like other de-adjectival nouns in *-ota should not be considered independently from its adjectival base, *lIgU-(k-) 'light', a genuine ancient *u-stem (with oddly denasalised root vocalism; one would expect *lINgU- instead), which may account for the blocking effect.

Actually, the example contrasted <lIgota> with <polIdza>. But that
may indeed have more to do with the semantic distance between
<polIdza> and <lIgU-kU> than with the vowel after -Ig-.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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