Re: Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE langua

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 28445
Date: 2003-12-13

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:04:08 +0000, elmeras2000 <jer@...> wrote:

>Now, the /n/'s are easy: The orthotone variants of *noH3, *nos are
>*nH3we, *nsme; and if /w/ can proceed from /m/ in the position after
>the dual marker, they can come from *nH3me, *nsme. What we expect is
>*mH3me, *msme, so the actual *nH3me > *nH3we, *nsme can be explained
>by simple dissimilation.

For *msme < *nsme, compare also the acc.pl. *-ns < *-ms.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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