[tied] Re: PIE *kwokt

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...>"
<m_iacomi@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
> >> You'll have to take into account also : post-tonic -(e)lla >
> >> -(e)a in Daco-Romanian, -(e)au& in Aromanian. The only thing
> >> to be noted is assimilation to /i/ from the first syllable by
> >> the "temporary" short /i/ issued from diphtongtion (see also
> >> message 18761). There is nothing else to be said.
> >
> > What stopped stressed tautosyllabic /Tea/ simplifying to /Ta/
> > as in terra 'ground' > tzarã?
>
> See the rules. /ea/ gots simplified in /a/ only if the next
> syllable contains /a/ or /&/. Being final, there is no next
> syllable, so it remains /ea/.

I don't recall this constraint on the absorption of vowel elements.
For 'seven', I had septem > sEpte > siepte > sieapte > $ieapte >
$eapte > $apte. Presumably '$apte', rather than '$epte', should now
be regarded as deviant, as '$ea' will simplify back to '$e' under the
influence of the final 'e'.

Richard.