Re: [tied] Re: Caland [was -m (-n)?]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:25:58 +0000, elmeras2000 <jer@...> wrote:

>Now, how do we account for that? Well, forms enterering into
>composition are plainly reduced, cf. *n-, *dwi-, *H1su- and many
>others which never show full-grade. That rings a bell, for the
>reduced forms of the thematic vowel (quoted as *-o- when not
>reduced) are precisely *-u- and *-i-. A fine hierarchy is seen in
>the variants of *-tó- (accented form) which are *-tu- (immediately
>following the accent) and *-ti- (final of compounds): Vedic kr-tá-
> 'made', kár-tu-m 'to make', havís.-krti- 'the making of a
>sacrificial meal'.

-tu also occurs accented (aktú- "ray", r.tú- "season', jantú- "creature").
-ti occurs (accented and unaccented) in uncompounded words.

The same goes for Vedic -ná (also -na), -ni (also -ní), -nú (also -nu) and
-rá (also -ra), -ri (also -rí), -ru (also -rú).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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