--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> In Greek words with short u in two middle syllables, the second u>0.
> These rules also occur in Indo-Iranian and Celtic.
When I stumbled upon this site
igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/ 2007-0316-
200539/Finale%20Versie%20OW%20Glosses%20MC.doc
I couldn't resist commenting on the speculations about Old Welsh words, as some apply
to my previously stated rules.
My reconstructed meanings and forms:
miin-gued-ou 'observing entrails'
from
*me:ms+ (Me`Mf+) 'limb, flesh'
*weid+ (vYèid+) 'see'
ii = i:
e = e: / ei
gu = gw
goudon-ou 'wood-borers'
from
*tereh1dón+ (t.er.exYdón.+ 1-1-2) 'boring insect'
*tereh1dn+
ana. >
*drudón+ (d.r.uudón.+ 12-2) 'wood-borer'
*drudn+
in Celtic add
*widhudrudón+
*widhudrudn+
> # V-u-u-V # > # V-u-_-V #
> # V-u-u-V() > # V-u-_-V()
>
> followed by rules simplifying the resulting clusters, also somewhat
> sim. to secondary Latin rules.
*widhudrudn+
*widhudr_dn+
*widhu0_dn+
*widhudn+
*widudn+
*widun+ ... (d-d dissim.)
gou = gwu