Re: [tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal s

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:08:16 +0000, P&G <petegray@...> wrote:

>>The lengthening of the root vowel in the s-aorist suggests to me that the
>>original shape was *deyk^s > *de:yk^s, with length due to normal
>>"Szemerényi lengthening", as in the nom.sg..
>
>Isn't Szemerényi lengthening due to loss of the following -s?

No. I mean, yes according to Szemerényi, but in fact no.

The -s is lost after -n-, -r-, -y-, -m- and -s- itself (-l is unclear).
But -s stays elsewhere (e.g. -wo:ts, -o:ds, -e:us/-o:us, etc.), and we
still get lengthening.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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