>We have *nepo:ts,
>*meh1no:ts etc. in the nom. sg.
There are also cases where the lengthening does not appear. Perhaps these
are internal to the various languages concerned, e.g all those words in
Latin where the nominative ends in short -es < *-its, from -it- stems.
miles, comes, superstes etc
Peter
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