Re: [tied] -phóros, -phorós, -fer

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-04-06 13:02, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Gk phóros "a carrying"
> > Gk phorós "a carrying (person), a carrier"
> >
> > Latin -fer "a carrying (person, object)"
> >
> > The two first are recognised to be related; phorós is an adjective
> > derived from the noun phóros.
>
> Not quite. The adjective is more fundamental. <pHóros> is
> zero-derived with stress retraction. However, actually, *pHorós

did > not survive as an independent word in Greek, and in compounds
we > have <-pHóros> 'carrier' with penult accent (but that's a
Greek > accentual innovation).

Just out of curiosity, where did the Greek accentuation come from?

- Rob