From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 36797
Date: 2005-03-17
>Hmm. So what's the pattern? Winter's law is blocked in
>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-.