From: elmeras2000
Message: 36774
Date: 2005-03-16
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
I can surely follow you. The two words vydra and vêdro would be
parallel if derived from *udráH2 and *wedróm via Winter's law and an
accompanying event of accent retraction. Still, the short *-e- of
the latter form is not motivated by anything other than the desire
to make these two particular words parallel. And if they are, what
are we to do with Latv. dubra and dzidrs? And of course also OCS
dUbrI which does not have a jer between /b/ and /r/. You could be -
accidentally - right if they can be given radical accent, which is
not a problem with substantivized forms as *dhúb-ri- and *dhúb-raH2,
but more of a problem with dzidrs 'clear' which generally has a
short /i/, although a variant dzi~drs also exists. Also, idra could
be *H2íd-raH2, but the adjective idrs is less appealing. It also
leaves dubùs and pigùs to be explained only by some blocking
influence from /u/ which would be really strange, but apparently
without contradiction.
I think one must say in all fairness that you have shown that we do
not really know whether Winter's law was blocked by media + /r/.
Jens