Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 39762
Date: 2005-08-25

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>> IE *-o: < *-owi < unaccented *-omi
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> Unaccented *-omi? So what happened to accented *-ómi?

And it should be remembered that in most of the early thematic presents
the thematic vowel was _accented_. This is in particular true of the
ordinary *-jé- and *-sk^é- presents, while in ordinary
iteratives/causatives we have *-éje-. Originally, the thematic vowel in
verbs might have carried obligatory accent, later retracted if there was
a full vowel to the left of it.

Piotr