Re: [tied] Re: *-t-, put

On 2007-07-09 15:51, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:

> It's even better: it's
>
> *frawarðiða- ðiðe: > *frawarðiðe:
> *frawarðiða- ðe:ðun > *frawarðiðe:ðun

Oh dear, after a Proto-Germanic mead-banquet it must have been way worse
than "The Leith police dismisseth us" :)

> with /e:/ replacing only IE *e, not IE *i.
>
> The short /e/ of OS deda, OHG teta is from *i by a-umlaut which is
> apparently later than the replacement of /e/ by /e:/ in the
> reduplication. Thus Gmc. *ðiðe:, *ðe:ðun presupposes *ðiðe:, *ðeðun
> from IE *dhi-dhéH1-t, *dhé-dhH1-n.t .

Yes, I admit the explanation becomes especially elegant if the
preservation of the *dHi-/*dHe- alternation is assumed.

Piotr