Re: [tied] Lat. -idus

From: elmeras2000
Message: 35810
Date: 2005-01-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> Perhaps Olsen pre-aspiration -eh1t- > -eth-?
...

That is what we like to believe at this place, and Birgit is pleased
to be remembered. It would be like Latin albus => albe:re =>
albidus, only without the middle part: Given the adjective surviving
in Lith. nĂșogas, OCS nagU, it would be *nogWe-h1-to- 'become naked'
> *nogWetho- > Italic *nogWeTo-s > pre-Latin *noweDos > *nowedos >
*noudos > nu:dus.

Jens