Re: [tied] etymology Madhyadesha

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21888
Date: 2003-05-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:


> One question. Shouldn't the accent on *doikos be on the first syllable?

Perhaps it "should be", but it ain't (in the _comparatively_
reconstructed word). Skt. <des'a-> was stressed on the thematic vowel,
and ON teigr 'strip of land', with its Vernerian reflex of *k^,
indicates final stress as well.

Piotr