From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 33054
Date: 2004-06-03
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Old Czech hp�n vs. Modern Czech pan, p�n
> If there is a <potnia>, apparently yes. How come it's <potnia>, but
> <des-poina>?
As <despoina> 'lady of the house' is the feminine counterpart of
<despote:s>, it can hardly be anything else but *dems-potnih2 > *despotnja
with the simplification of *-tnj- to -nj- prior to the regular C+glide
metathesis (*-onja > -oina). Elements of compounds are typically prone to
segmental reduction.
Piotr