21-04-2004 12:08, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
> One would expect *-stu:. Or you don't accept this *pt > *st rule in Slavic?
I'd be loath not to derive Slavic *pero from *pterom. As we both know,
the evidence for the rare development of *pt > *st has been contested,
and I'm willing to accept the possibility that *pt- > *p- root-initially
and *-pt- > -t- medially, with *-st- in verbs, as in the type *gresti
from *grebo~, having been analogically taken from dental stems while OCS
greti would represent the phonologically regular development.
Piotr