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

From: elmeras2000
Message: 36798
Date: 2005-03-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:


> What about *agneN, one of the showcase examples of WL?

As far as I can see the original quantity of the vowel is not
determinable. It could have been long from the outset. I am not
saying it was, but using it in evidence presupposes knowledge of its
being originally short, knowledge I cannot see we have.

Jens