[tied] Re: *(H-)p/bh[-r/l-] again again

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
>>But in my Latin vocabulary I found /pi:sum/ with long /i:/.
>>Probably it is a printing mistake.

> If so, it is an authoritative mistake. Charlton and Lewis (as
> quoted at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%
> 3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2336467 ) gives it with a long
> vowel. French _pois_ does argue for a short vowel.
>
> Richard.

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How would anyone know? The word is apparently attested only in
prose. Just wondering.
By the way, that's (Charlton) Lewis & (Charles) Short.
Dan