[tied] Re: Hittite preterites

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...>
wrote:

> I'm slowly getting as allergic to Occam (or is it Ockham?) as
> I am to Caland.

I was kidding, of course (except that <Ockham> is indeed a more
fashionable variant spelling).

> However, I wonder if cases of an apparently meaningless suffix
> *-wo- and nasal presents in apparently suffixed *-new-/*-nu-
> could reflect roots that were actually longer but lost some
> material in so many forms that they were registered in too
> short a form.

Is it a beginning of a new thread? If not, I must admit you won: I
can't see how this is related to the PIE phonotactic features I was
wondering about.

Sergei