Re: [tied] Animate Dual in -h3 (was: IE Roots)

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 25365
Date: 2003-08-27

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:30:56 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>Do you need word boundaries? I can't help think there was something
>similar with the plural -s in English. There are several examples
>of fossil /s/ - 'bodice' as opposed to 'bodies', 'pence' as opposed
>to 'pennies', 'dice' as opposed to 'dies'. Similarly, the Scottish
>pronunciations of 'teas' and 'tease' are reported to be different.

There _is_ a resemblance, but an exact analogue to the PIE situation would
have beeen if the English <-s> plural had developed to [-z], as it has, but
the <-es> plural had remained *[-Is], instead what we actually have in most
cases, [-Iz].


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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