Re: [tied] Re: Germanic declensions?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 39579
Date: 2005-08-10

tgpedersen wrote:

> How do you get from PIE *bhére-ti to PGerm *bériDi (I assume you
> mean)? Doesn't Verner predict *bériTi?

I meant what I wrote, i.e. *BeriDi (phonemically = *beridi, but I wanted
to emphasise the fricative realisation of the obstruents). The *t became
*T by _Grimm's_ Law and was then voiced to *D by _Verner's_ Law (the
preceding syllable was unaccented).

Piotr