Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:32 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:17:02 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>>This is not clear to me. Skt. has <ga:vaH>, which could of course be explained via Brugmann's Law in *gWowes, but why is there no length in the "adverbial" cases (<gava:, gave, gavi>) or in the dual? *{gWeh3-ew-es} is at least a possibility.

> The dual has length (Skt. ga:va:(u) < *gWow-eh3).  As to the lack of
Brugmann's Law in the weak cases, that's a good point.  In an
acrostatic paradigm (Schindler's group Ia), we would expect: ...

 

Sorry, I omitted "gen./loc." before "dual" (<gavoH>). The length in the nom./acc./voc. dual <ga:vau> is expected under the laryngeal interpretation.

> There does seem to be a laryngeal in *gWou-H- "[bull]shit" (Slav. govUno).

 

Nope. The yer is actually *I, not *U, and belongs to the suffix (< *-ino-m).

 

Piotr

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