Re: [tied] Re: sum

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:38:19 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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>Jasanoff grounds his assumption of ablauting presents in the existence
>of Narten presents ablauting /e/ vs. /e:/. Not having read the article
>I don't know by what devious strategem Narten obtains that
>alternation; the forever quoted paradigm is Sanskrit 3rd sg stáuti
>(< *stéu-ti), 3rd pl. stuvánti (< *stu-ónti), no less semi-thematic

It's athematic.

>than *hés-ti, *h1s-ónti, or *bhér-ti, *bhr-ónti, ie stressed -o-
>before voiced sound, unstressed -e- elsewhere.

You mean *stu-énti and *h1s-énti. The athematic 3pl. ending
is *-enti, not *-onti (which is thematic one).

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