Re: [tied] Re: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory?

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:piotr.gasiorowski@...]

> 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.
>

Just for the record: how would you etymologize *nestera 'niece'?
*(h2)nep-t-ter-eh2 (vs. *netIjI < *(h2)nep-t-i-o), like Derksen?

Sergei