Re: Compensatory lengthening

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...> wrote:

>
> Piotr said:
>
> <Curiously, the collective suffix *-h2 also lengthens vowels in

the same

> <fashion, but final *-h2 can't have been voiced, judging from the fact
> <that there is no o-colouring of the thematic vowel before it.
>
> Isn't it possible to say that *-VCh2 > *-V:C (dropping of *-h2 and
>compensatory lengthening) > *-V:Ch2 (analogical restoring of *-h2 by
>analogy to *-eh2 etc.)?

I think instead I want to go the whole hog here:
*-VC -> *-V:, and *then* + *-h2 -> *V:h2 -> (analogical restoring
of stem) *-V:Ch2
Note long vowel, so -h2 can't get at it. I think the *-h2 suffix
is late PIE, picked up from some substrate, note the many
substrate words in -ak at the Mediterranean.


Torsten