Re: Verner-alternating Gmc. nouns

On 2008-12-20 17:43, tgpedersen wrote:

> The reason *tómos type nouns have initial stress is that they are
> de-compounded verbal stems, if memory serves.

No, it's your private theory, not a fact.

> I think you mean to say that tómos/tomós type generation became
> independently productive. On verbal stems, that is.

I meant something else, but the very existence of the tómh1o-/*tomh1ó-
contrast shows that accentual differences need not be accompanied by
ablaut changes.

> > Some of the Gmc. *a's reflect PIE *a's, especially where coloured
> > by *h2, as in *h2antio-
>
> Now I don't recall what Hittite says there, but it has cognates in
> either Semitic or Egyptian, which means it's likely a loan.

Hittite has <hant-> 'face', the word from which Gmc. andija- was derived.

Piotr