Re: [tied] Re: Active / Stative

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:38:18 +0100, petegray
<petegray@...> wrote:

>>> The first step is *-osyo, *-asyo > *-esyo. The -e- should then
>> >survive, since the syllable is closed. Neither would be reduced
>to -ijjo.
>> Allright. But /ei/ is of course reduced to /i:/, so we have
>> *-eiio > *-i:o.
>
>We don't have /ei/ we have /eyy-/, which survives. We know it survives
>because we see it in inscriptions etc, and we know it continued to survive,
>because of Italian reflexes of maior, peior, etc, which clearly show *-eyyo-

I was talking about isti:us, illi:us.

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