Re: [tied] *nepo:t... Somebody's wrong!

On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 01:09:44, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Miguel claims that the nominative is *népo:t(s) with accentuation
>on the initial syllable. Alright, fine. Unfortunately, Piotr's
>very own informative and much appreciated site concerning IE stress
>says something entirely different:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2190/Caraculiambro/Stress.html
>
>Here, it is written in bold as *nepó:t (accent on LAST syllable).

Given OI. nápa:t, Grk. népodes and OE (etc.) nefa, that's surely a
slip of the pen on Piotr's part. There are basically two patterns for
the animate non-static nom. sg.: (A) *CéCO:C(s) or (B) *CCé:C(s).
*népo:t(s) belongs to type A.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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