Re: [tied] -osyo 4 (was: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory?)

>> As is most often the case, no double-long vowels need be employed.
>
> You're suggesting that Osthoff's law cannot be applied to long
> diphthongs, since they did not exist?

I'm talking about IE, ignoring every other language on the planet.
I thought that this law pertains to the development of Greek alone.
I'm simply saying that in IE, there are no double-long vowels and
never were in PreIE either, afaic. We get by just fine by
concentrating on short and long vowels alone.

> Was there never a distinction between -o:i and -oi?

There was in IE. There had to have been. It distinguished the thematic
locative and dative, for one thing.


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