Re: [tied] Re: 'Dog' revisited

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:05:15 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>I'm still thinking about the supposed accent on *u in the variant
>*kúwo:n. Yet with *dúwo:-, it becomes a little more suspect as
>evidence for Piotr's case. Is it possible that this is just a rule
>affecting nouns starting in Cw- where C is any stop?

As long as they are monosyllabic. *dwo: and *duwo: are called "Lindeman
variants". I'm not sure if the phenomenon is known as "Lindeman's Law",
but, in any case, you have rediscovered it.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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