Daughter (was: Short and long vowels)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> The short answer to your question is that the two sets have different
> antecedents,
>
> + -*tér, occupational suffix, for *(am)ma:tér and *pa(:)(t)-tér.
>
> + -*á:tR, fire(side), for bhrá:tR and dhughá:tR; mechanically, we have
> zero-grade of the first and third syllables with stress-accent on

the first

> syllable of the compounding element.
>
> I am sure that everyone will agree that there can be nothing but

educated

> guesses here.

Which immediately raises the ssnsible question of where the accent was
in the PIE word and the mocking question of why the second vowel is
missing or reduced grade, whence the conventional reconstruction
*dHugh2ter-. Greek _thugáte:r_ argues for *dHúgh2ter-, Sanskrit
_duhitár-_ argues for *dHugh2tér-.

Richard.