Re: [tied] Re: IE lexical accent

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From: <enlil@...>
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Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: IE lexical accent


> Jens:
> > Thus, if you leave it up to the metrical indications supplied by the
> > Rigveda to decide whether the first syllable of pada's is longer or
> > shorter than that of apa's 'from the water', you can only find that
> > they are both short.
>
> Yes, they are, but then they both would have closed first syllables
> because we'd be talking about */ped.dos/ and */xep.pos/.

Then why do we have the open-syllable (Brugmannian) lengthening of *o in
acc. pa:dam < *podm., nom.pl. pa:das < *podes, and in nom.pl. a:pas <
*h2opes ?

Piotr