On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 01:31:35 +0000, elmeras2000 <
jer@...> wrote:
>There remain two quite embarrassing loose ends: (1) If /R/ was once
>just a phoneme of the language, we would expect it to appear in
>other material than just this one morpheme, but where are the
>examples? -
I still feel the loc. du. ending comes closest to having the same behaviour
as this */R/. If we assume a formation parallel to the plural one, we
should have athematic *-X-u (pl. -S-u) and thematic *-oy-X-u (pl.
*-oy-S-u). The thematic form could be expected to lose the laryngeal
(*-oyXu > *-oyyu, as indeed in Greek -oin < -oiin < -oiiun (< *-oyXu + -m),
but in C-stems the laryngeal vocalised to /o/ (*-C-Xu > *-C-ou = Skt.
-o:(s), Av. -o:, OCS -u, Lith -au~), *not* to expected Skt /i/, Grk /o/,
rest /a/.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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