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

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:31:17 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>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.

As I implied, there is no agreement. The most likely options as far as I
know are penultimate accent or the Classical Arabic rules (which are not
unlike those of Classical Latin and Classical Sanskrit).

>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?

Sorry, I don't have any thoughts on stressed syllabic resonants in PIE in
general. Can the consonant cluster be relevant? The Semitic `ayn?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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