From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 36167
Date: 2005-02-08
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From: "Rob" <magwich78@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:20 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Back to Slava
>Perhaps. The word is certainly morphologically complex -- I'd say
>either *pot-i-s or *po-t-i-s. However, the Vedic form pátih. does
>not seem to fit the reconstructed o-vocalism (the form should be
>*pá:tih. via Brugmann's Law, I think).
This has been discussed before, I think. The short -a- in Vedic is probably
due to the analogy with the oblique forms in which the syllable is not open
(*poty-).
Mate