Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Latin /a/ after labials, IE *mori

On 2009-06-04 23:29, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> (If you can enumerate all the cases than do it, but please don't write
> 'well-defined environment' etc... -> it means nothing)

It means a lot if the environment is indeed well-defined. In vr.ddhied
adjectives based on the zero grade of roots of the type *CReC- the
infixed vowel may appear before rather after the resonant, producing
*CeRC-o-. The showcase example is *deiw-o- (cf. *dje:u-s/*diw-ós);
another one is the 'birch' word, *bHerh1g^-o-, and *g^Heim-o- is the
third that comes to mind. I suppose the list is nearly exhaustive by
now, at least as regards demonstrably old words.

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> So 'a secondary e-grade' can or cannot have ablaut-forms on its turn, in
> your opinion?
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Not if it originated too late to produce them, and these adjectives are
generally regarded as late formations.

Piotr