From: alex
Message: 27207
Date: 2003-11-14
> 14-11-03 17:04, alex wrote:I have had there basis for asking it. The Rom. word has too two syllable
>
>> Thank you for the explanation Piotr.
>> One more question tough. Why should be the stress on /u/?What does
>> speak against stress on /w/ in *duwo?
>
> You get the prize for the weirdest question of the month. *w was a
> non-syllabic consonant, and only syllabic segments can support an
> accent. The choice here is between the first or the second syllable of
> *duwo:, i.e. *dúwo: or *duwó:. In the latter caes the stressed vowel
> would have given Mod.Alb. /e/.
>
> Piotr