From: elmeras2000
Message: 30785
Date: 2004-02-06
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:The root *mad- (thus LIV) of Skt. madati 'intoxicate', Lat.
> > Torsten:
> > > Your alternation two (a/o/zero) is made up by you, not me. You
> > > provide the examples.
> >
> > Well, if someone call tell me what the perfect of *mad- or *kap-
> > is, that'd be great. We had a discussion a while back on this
> > but nobody could provide more info. So I assumed that it was
> > an open possibility that *a could alternate with *o. I can't
> > imagine why a language would just alternate *e and not *a too.
> > Since based on all other world languages a language MUST have a
> > low vowel to balance out high ones, we know that IE DID have *a.
> >
> > So, why wouldn't *a alternate with *o in ablaut? In English we
> > have verbs that ablaut too like bear/bore and wear/wore but also
> > sit/sat and see/saw. We see many vowels participating in ablaut,
> > not just one.
> >
> >
>
> Bla-bla-bla. Examples?