Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 20:53:11 -0400, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

>At 6:13:18 PM on Sunday, June 8, 2003, Miguel Carrasquer
>wrote:
>
>> For OIr. tír < *ters-, I see no other explanation than
>> lengthening caused by the *-s-. Do you?
>
>For what it's worth, Thurneysen tentatively suggests an
>original suffixed *ters-r-, yielding *te:sr and OIr. tír.
>He compares this with OIr. mír 'morsel' < *me:msr-.

Yes I saw that, but I didn't quite see why -rs- couldn't and -rsr- could
have yielded -:(s)r-. The example of mír is not quite to the point, as the
vowel in *me:msr- already *had* length of itself.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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