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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Âàäèì Ïîíàðÿäîâ" <ponaryad@...>
wrote:
> So it is not necessary to reconstruct *pW here: the accent
position etc. could be the reason of two reflexes of *kW as well.
There's more discussion of the issue at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14885 . The
Nosrtratic evidence at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14952 was
interesting. I had some qualms about comparing words for 'spleen'
and 'liver'. I once saw some offal labelled, if I translate it
literally, as 'iron liver' in a Thai supermarket, but no one will
tell me what the phrase means.
Miguel:
> > We were talking about -t in the second person, not about -s
> > in the third person.
Vadim:
> Eng. <thou art>
Preterite-present (mentioned in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14489 ). I don't
know why the 2s past indicative of the normal strong verbs in Old
English should lack the dental and be the same as the 2s past
subjunctive, i.e. end in -e.
Richard.