Re: [tied] Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

On Pon, siječanj 22, 2007 10:39 pm, mcarrasquer reče:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mandicdavid" <davidmandic@...>
> wrote:

>>Wouldn't o: be raised to u: then, cf. mati < má:te:r?
>
> <Mati> and <mote.~> are from *máh2te~.

Just a methodological point. If you assume PIE variants *-e: and *-e:r and
you allow for to different "accents" on them, it is not surprising that
you can get practically anything by assuming a reflex of one of those
variants.