Re: [tied] The centum-word.

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6896
Date: 2001-03-31

I concur in general, but I hope I showed that in _Greek_ (though not necessarily elsewhere) the influence of the word for "30" could suffice as the source of analogic length in the higher decads, and indeed some of the lengthened forms are _best_ explained in this way.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] The centum-word.


I don't think Piotr said plural *-x (-*h2), because no such thing
exists.  Piotr's point was rather that the only viable starting point
for an analogical process would have been a form like Greek tria:konta
(with *h2, rather than *h1), not any of the attested forms of
"twenty".  To which one can add that *trih2-k^omth2 is not necessarily
the PIE Urform (*tri-h1k^omth2 works fine for anything but Greek and
Tocharian *<ta"rya:ka> (< *t(i)rih2-k^mt-)), and that it failed to
trigger any analogical processes even in Greek itself, where the other
decads have *-h1- (< *-d-).