Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:04 AM
Subject: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven


> I feel that these Semitic loans were adopted earlier than the event of
> syncope in Mid IE (c.5000 BCE). So *sweks and *septm in Mid IE would have
> been initially loaned as *swekse and *septem. Only the vowels *e (schwa)
> and *a (low central) were available to IE speakers at the time which is
why
> the vowels don't appear to be quite in line with the Semitic roots. But
this
> latter paragraph is my own idea so feel free to reject it.

What do you make of the curious fact that *septm. is _consistently_ stressed
on the syllabic nasal in IE? (Indo-Iranian, Greek, Albanian and Germanic all
confirm this odd pattern.)

Piotr