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

17-11-03 19:10, alex wrote:

> such a irony of the fate: PIE *ne-po:t- was reduced in Latin to "nepos",
> but its oblique forme was "nepotis", thus the East Romance got it as
> "nepot" (rom. word).
>
> How are these "changes" called? Cyclical changes or "back to roots"
> sometimes?:-)))

Nothing of the kind. The PIE nom.sg. was *nepo:ts; the nom.pl. was
*nepotes, the gen.sg. *neptos. Latin simplified this pattern to
<nepo:s>/<nepo:t-> (generalising a long vowel and eliminating the weak
allomorph *nept- altogether). Romanian went a step further, generalising
the Latin oblique stem (just <nepot> across the board, from VLat.
nepóte- < nepo:tem). It didn't restore the PIE state of things.

Piotr