Piotr:
>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.)
Yes, but I'm sure this is a later change. Syllabic nasals, *i and *u are
normally
zero-graded syllables due to lack of accent, as you know. This is the
general
pattern. So if we follow this general pattern, we come to the conclusion
that
an accent on a syllabic nasal must be secondary. The source of this later
change is apparent -- Analogy. The following number *okto:u with accent
on the second syllable could provide a motivation for this change.
= gLeN
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