Miguel:
>I did consider analogy from *ok^t�:(w), but I just didn't feel that was
>compelling enough.
Sometimes you people drive me nuts on this List and then I'm forced
to question my sanity -- Are they all insane or is it just me? This is
one of those rare instances where you're all insane.
It's beyond me how simple analogy involving a single step (accent shift)
is somehow not "compelling enough". Not compelling enough in
comparison to what? Jens' grandiose solution that rewrites Semitic?
Piotr's ad hoc answer that lacks even a general theory on pre-IE to
back it up?
I suppose then Russian /dyevyat'/ "9" with /dy-/ instead of expected
*n- is _not_ analogically altered by /dyesyat'/ "10" because it's not
compelling either. Or is there a double standard going on with IE?
Unless we're willing to reconstruct *dyeun alongside *neun, analogy
_is_ compelling enough. Especially when this solution is the most
credibly economical answer available.
>In any case, we agree that stressed syllabic resonants must be secondary.
Strangely true. When is the meteor going to hit?
= gLeN
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