Re: [tied] tt/st/ss

On 2007-06-08 22:43, Sean Whalen wrote:

> If there had been a stage where -ulum became the
> analogical ending, why not *trahulo+?

<traha, trahae> is actually attested in the same sense as <tragula>
('sledge'). The /u/ in <-ulum> is anaptyctic, just as in <-culum> and
<-bulum>. There was a stage where the truncated suffix -lo- was added
directly to the verb stem, yielding *-G-lom > *-glom > -gulum.

> There was no accent shift in neuter plurals.

I'm talking about early collectives, not later neuter plurals with the
accent alternation levelled out. There are traces of the shift in
Germanic (Vernerian variants of thematic nouns), in Greek (heteroclitic
thematic nouns) and elsewhere.

> Before I get into more specifics, do you believe PIE
> accented *pew-x-trom on the *x?

No.

> Not always:
>
> *bhertlos > ferculum 'bier'
> *tlaxtlos > tabula 'board'

Admittedly not always, but often enough to be significant: <mulctrum,
ara:trum, claustra, terebra, pollu:brum> etc. vs. <su:bula, poculum,
fa:bula, stabulum> etc. There is no trace such an alternation in
<-ulum/-ula>.

Piotr