[tied] Re: Back to Slava

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:27:49 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>

wrote:

> >> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:06:48 +0000, tgpedersen
> >> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> >How would you deal with Latin hospes, sospes?
> >>
> >> From *hósti-potis regularly reduced to *hóspe(t)s.
> >>
> >
> >Excuse my ignorance; which rule is that?
>
> Reduction of unstressed /o/ (short vowels in general) in
> medial syllables to /e/ ~ /i/ [hospit-]), and syncope.
>

Ernout & Meillet has
compos, impos
and
compes, hospes, sospes (seispes)

Apparently, that rule doesn't apply uniformly.


Torsten