From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 18285
Date: 2003-01-29
>Miguel:The oblique *pk^wós is attested in Armenian asr, asu (Arm /a/ from
>>>or using complete irrelevancies like his **pk^wos based
>>>solely on Armenian
>>
>>No. Read what I said.
>
>If a case showing a zero-graded root **pkw- within its
>declensional paradigm is credibly attested in a non-Armenian
>language, then we'll talk.
>> >However, that being so, there were instances where the loss of"there were instances where the loss of unstressed vowels was
>> >unstressed vowels was resisted
>>
>>So what are the rules?
>
>Therefore, I'm correct that you don't understand what I said.
>>There is no reason in your theory why this should not have givenSamprasa:ran.a is the term used by the old Indic grammarians.
>>*udnos. Cf. the collective root *udó:r, *udéns.
>
>The reason is painfully simple to any sensible IEist:
>*u is the normal zero-grade of *eu/*au/*ou, not of *we/*wa/*wo.
>>The genitive of *pek^u is not **pek^eus!The genitive of the i- and u-stems is overwhelmingly *-eis,
>
>Yes, I know about *pekuos, a thematic genitive. Thematic variants
>of these genitives were obviously created to wipe out the much
>less common *-s genitive.