Re: [tied] Timing of ablaut

From: Alwin K.
Message: 25938
Date: 2003-09-22

Jens wrote
> That *is* a tricky one indeed. It is very hard to
> anything in the
> order of closed syllables here (*Hop-s- or
> *HopH-os). If opus/�pas-
> is taken at face value, then the PIE form,
> phonemically /H3�pos/,
> phonetically had a special o-like vowel in its first
> syllable. That
> is not in itself impossible, although I thought I
> had found a
> decisive example, which happens to speak against it:
>
> I do not know of other examples of the type of
> �pas-, but perhaps
> others do?

Lubotsky wrote an article about it: La loi de Brugmann
et *H3e- in 'La Reconstruction des Laryngales (=
Biblioth�que de la Facult� de Philisophie et Lettres
de l�Universit� de Li�ge 253), Paris, (1990) 129-136'.
He concludes that *H3e did not get lengthened by
Brugmann's Law.
So Skt. �pas- < *H3�p-os- and also e.g. Skt. �nas- <
*H3�n-os-.

Gr. Alwin



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