Re: [tied] Re: Mi- and hi-conjugation in Germanic

On 05-03-17 13:21, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Right. I vaguely remembered there was at least one
> counterexample, but I didn't remember what it was.
>
> The examples of non-lengthening that Jens gives in his 1992
> article are: ognI, ugnìs; (v)oNglI, anglìs; lùgnas;
> sla~bnas.

If *ognI, ugnis < *UNgni- (which is highly likely, given Lat. ignis),
the failure of WL may be due to the heavy consonant cluster rather than
the mere presence of the nasal (the same in anglis?). Another example of
lengthening before a stop + nasal cluster (from Winter's original
article) is Slavic *we^no 'dowry' < *wed(m)no-.

Piotr