[tied] Re: bake

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:18 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: bake
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> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but a zero grade extension *bh&g-, as

far as

> > I know, would have been stressed after the -g- extension, and -g-
> > therefore be subject to Verner; thus Gmc **bag-, not *bak- ...
>
> Well, it _is_ wrong. Verner's Law applied to fricatives only,

changing *f, *þ, *x, *xW and *s into *b [B], *d [ð], *g [G], *gW [GW]
and *z, respectively. The PIE *d series (> Gmc. *t) were unaffected,
so Vernerian alternations are impossible in stems like those of
<sit>, <eat>, <leap>, <drink> and <bake>.

>

Of course.

Torsten