Re: [tied] The centum-word.

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6897
Date: 2001-04-01

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:08:59 +0200, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>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.

I had failed to notice <tessarákonta>. For the other decads, the
source of the analogy is surely <penté:konta>.

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