Miguel:
>I don't expect it, and I don't see it. In fact, there's another reason why
>the loc.sg. cannot be simply the lexical root. In the r/n-stems, the
>loc.sg. ends in -n(i). The *-i is secondary, but the fact that *-n does
>not become *-r proves that there was a vowel present[...]
I hate to undermine your objection to Jens theory, which I equally reject,
but the *n in weak case forms is due to the fact that the phoneme was
always medial there except in the locative. Only final *-n became *-r.
While the locative was once endingless, the weak form *wedn-/*udn-
spread to _all_ weak case forms in Late IE. This created *weden/*uden,
a new locative form which also maintained the weak-case accent,
positioned away from the first syllable as with all other weak-case forms.
= gLeN
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