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

13-11-03 15:58, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> No. The Semitic stress was either sáb`atum (penult not short, so
> anetepenult stress) or sab`átum (stress on penult anyway). Stress on the
> last syllable was possible in Semitic if the vowel was long, but not
> otherwise.

OK, I know that the mimated final was unstressable in Akkadian; as to
Proto-Semitic accentuation rules, I plead ignorance and I trust that
your account is accurate. But what you say means that we're left with no
explanation for the final stress in *septm. -- so aberrant that the
suspicion of its being somehow connected with the loanword status of the
word is hard to resist. Any thoughts?

Piotr