Re: [tied] Re: Day and dies, deus and theos

Like any explanation of sporadic variation it is a priori suspect and can at best be regarded as hypothetical, but it is still a possibility.

There are well-known examples of Slavic (also Polish) metanalysis involving prepositions and prefixes:

vUn imI > w nim

sUn imI > z nim (similarly in Russian)

ob-uti 'put (shoes) on' > o-buc' (false reanalysis has created a new verb root, bu-, "related" to but 'shoe')

Piotr

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:30 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Day and dies, deus and theos

I'd be reluctant to posit this kind of metanalysis for a language, like PIE, lacking definite and indefinite articles (any Polish examples, na przyklad?)...