Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 01:23:38, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Miguel forgets about linguistic rules:
>>*wá:dan (> wódr) -> coll. *w(a)dá:n(h2) > *udo:r "water(s)"
>>*dá:ru (> *dóru) -> coll. *d(a)rú:(h2) > *dru:- "tree(s)"
>>*gú:wu (> *gWówu) -> coll. *gW(u)wú:(h2) > *gWu:- "cow(s)"
>
>No, no, Miggy. You seem to be resisting Mid IE vocalic constraints
>and the penultimate accent rule. That should be, starting in Late
>Mid IE, the following:
>
>*wat:er (> wódr) -> coll. *wet:ár-xe
>*t:áreu (> *dóru) -> coll. *t:eráu-xe
>*k:Wa:u (> *gWo:us) -> coll. *k:Wáu-xe

Well, seriously now, how does your "penultimate accent rule" explain
the difference between the paradigms of *ph2té:r(s), *ph2trós and
*máh2te:r, *máh2tr(V)s?