Re: [tied] Re: PIE *kwokt

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:53:42 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
wrote:

>What should mean here "restored" Mr Iacomi?
>The ending "-aua" is simple the same definite article for fem.
>substantives which end in "-ea":
>caTea= caTeaua, viTea=viTeaua, cordea=cordeaua, flanea= flaneaua
>I cannot imagine myslef it wnet lost and someone learned the folk again
>to use this suffix. This is why I ask wondering what means "restored"
>here?

Not dropped. It's common usage to say "restored" when a phoneme
otherwise lost resurfaces somewhere else in the paradigm or in some
other composed form. It's just a linguistical metaphor, and does not
imply that something was literally lost and then restored.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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