Re: No Verner in Gothic verbs?

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

>
> tgpedersen pisze:
>
> > Exactly. They have *-éje- which contains a stressed syllable, so you
> > can't use them as an example of what Verner does in unstressed
> > syllables.
>
> What VL does in all sorts of stress environments can be seen outside
> the verb system. Verbs which REALLY occurred without stress
> (grammatical words) show the operation of VL in Germanic, including
> Gothic: *(h1)esmi > *izmi > *immi > im, *(h1)senti > *sinDi > sind.

The *-sm- > *-zm- part follows from you assumption, so is not
permissible as an example. We might as well have *-sm- > *-mm- directly.

'sind' might have -nd from other 3pl's where it's from PIE *-´nt(i),
ie. a stressed syllable.

Non licet.


Torsten