Re: a-Epenthesis: hybrid proposal

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> Jens:
> > Thus, from a root with expected - and established - full grade
> > *H2wegs-, we experience no surprise when the causative is found
> > to be *(H2)wogs-éye-ti, and I see no reason to enter a rule of
> > metathesis concerning the placing of the o-element.
>
> Yes, of course. Phew! I thought that would do my theory in...
> Well folks. I got a hybrid proposal just itching to be
> explained. Here goes.

I have read it, getting all nostalgic about it, but there is no life
for it that I can see. It is what I used to think decades ago, i.e.
before I got to working seriously with the actual evidence. It is
also in essence what my opponents tried to object in the public
discussion about my thesis when it was presented. They also said,
why is this not just zero-grade? And I could just tell them that
zero-grade of the same structures looks different, so this is
something else. It's that simple. End of that story.

Jens