Re: [tied] Unreality...

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:12:34 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>How's this: *pot- "someone who has something to say" and *nepot-
> "someone who has nothing to say" are a contrasting pair
>(semantically), so their common stem vowel has been generalised.
>That's why *pot- has no e-grade, as Miguel wondered.

In *nepot-, it has zero grade (*né-po:t-s, *né-pot-m.,
*né-pt-os).

A similar paradigm is exhibited by *swé-so:r(s),
*swé-sor-m., *swé-sr-os), a word the compoundhood of which
is more generally accepted.


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