Re: [tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:22:26 +0000, P&G
<petegray@...> wrote:

>>The pronoun *ís, *ésyo gives Latin is, e:ius. Final -s is
>>secondary, so the form reflects stressed *ésyo with loss of
>>-s- and compensatory lengthening of the /e/. With stressed
>>*-ósyo the result is -u:ius (*-ósyo > *-óhyo > *-ó:io >
>>*-ú:iu + s), as in hu:ius, cu:ius.
>
>Not quite right. The vowel was short, and the medial <-i-> was pronounced
>double, as (nearly) always in Latin. So the forms are / ejjus, hujjus,
>cujjus/. We have attestations from the grammarians, as well as
>inscriptional evidence for this.

I see. Fortunately, that doesn't alter the diachronical
analysis too much.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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