origo

From: tgpedersen
Message: 22559
Date: 2003-06-03

The roots concerned were
> *H3reg^- and *ped-, but perhaps the paradigms of the root nouns
differed
> as having short and long e respectively (the latter of which could
be
> written /ee/ if one wanted to).

Speaking if which, whence the o- of 'origo', since Latin doesn't have
prothetic vowels?

Torsten