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> Alas. I don't think the thematic vowel has anything to do with "Caland".
I think it has to do with little else. All the classical cases of
i-alternation are with thematic adjectives. The thematic vowel itself
alternates e/o ~ u ~ i. The Caland business alternates *-re/o- ~ -u- ~
-i-. Is this unrelated?