Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

----- Original Message -----

From: pielewe

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:58 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@......>
wrote:
 
>    *dhe-tó- sta-tó- *do-tó  can  be reconstructed to justify the
actual Greek forms.
>
>   The 'laryngeals' are unnecessary in zero-grade, and contribute no
useful information.




Yes, but you can't explain the Vedic forms on the basis of *dhe-tó-
sta-tó- and *do-tó, so the laryngeals must have been present at the
latest common stage underlying Greek and Vedic.


Unless I have misunderstood something really basic. 


***

Patrick:

 

Well, let's try.

 

for *dhe:-, the Vedic participle is dhitá

 

for *sta:-, the Vedic participle is sthitá 

 

for *do:-,  the Vedic participle is da:tá but Epic di-tá

 

I am not sure I see the problem.

 

 
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