[tied] Re: nu:któs

From: david_russell_watson
Message: 56477
Date: 2008-04-03

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@>
> wrote:
> >
> > My copy of 'Etymological Lexicon of Classical Greek'
> > by E. R. Wharton gives 'ainumai' with a short 'u'.
> > No forms for 'nux' are listed besides the nominative.
>
> David, could you check if this dictionary manages the long-u or not?

The entire entry is:

aínumai take: Lat. oitor u:tor. 9.


In the back of the book under 9 it gives:

9. a from o or e before a close vowel:
ai from oi, cf. Lat. oitor—aínumai :
koikúllo:—kaikías. oîtos—aîsa.


David