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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> -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).
Yes, there is a lot of alternation. An attempt to accomodate all the
allomorphs would look like this:
*-nó-/*´-nu-/*+-ni- like *-tó-/*´-tu-/*+-ti-. I would suspect that
most instances of -ri- are contaminations of *-ro- and *-i-, and -ru-
may even reflect conflation of *-ro- and *-u-. There was certainly
regularly *-i-+ without -r- *before* compositional juncture, but
there may also have been *-ró-/*´-ru-/*-+-ri- with -ri- in the
*second* part of compounds.
There developed a movable accent in u-stems, so IE had *pér-tu-s,
gen. *pr-téw-s. That is not problematic, only complicating.
Jens