From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40991
Date: 2005-10-03
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Gypsies again
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:13:32 -0500, Patrick Ryan
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
> >
> >> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:34:24 -0500, Patrick Ryan
> >> <proto-language@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> >And, in the case of pá:t?
> >>
> >> *pó:ds, with lengthening caused by nom. *-s after consonant.
> >>
> >***
> >Patrick:
> >
> >I am surprised. Why would -*Cs cause the preceding vowel to be long?
>
> Also *-Ch2.
***
Patrick:
Well, that certainly _explains_ it.
***
> >I thought you might explain it by way of compensation.
>
> Compensation of what?
***
Patrick:
Loss of final -*s.
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> >And do you not mean *po:ts?
***
Patrick:
Again, did you not mean *po:ts?
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> >
> >But, however you wish to slice it, you are confronting <a:> in a closed
> >syllable.
>
> This has nothing to do with Brugmann's law: Grk. po:s, poda.
***
Patrick:
Ah yes, Brugmann's Law. The one Brugmann himself renounced?
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...