Maybe there is a connection
Norwegian ulv (1) - wolf has its ultimate origine in the accusative
form "wlqwom" . ( I do not know the intermediates)
The plural forms of the same word with tune 2 has as their ultimate
source the form wlqwons. The first ending has dropped out leaving tune
1. The second ending has not dropped leaving tune 2. Perhaps tune
differences deciced what ending could drop and what not, or the
heavier ending that did not drop were associated with some tune
qualities.
> Long time back I tried to make IE sense of Swedish-Norwegian
> tone and Danish stød with my limited knowledge until Jens
> pointed out that stød occur in what is monosyllables in
> Danish, so therefore can't have a PIE origin. But if stød
> and rising tone come from original two-morae (syllable)
> low tone - high tone, then perhaps they are from PIE after
> all?
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