Re: [tied] Re: Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:51:48 +0100, P&G
<G&P@...> wrote:

>> None of these restrictions apply to PIE *-iko-, which was
>> clearly a native suffix.
>
>Or nativ-ised. How would we tell the difference? Think of -ess in English,
>which is thoroughly nativised, but which goes back through Latin to Greek,
>where it is an alien import. So -ess is probably not even Indo-European in
>origin. But could we tell that just from the way -ess operates in English
>today?

I think so: the pronunciation varies between -&s and -Es, a
sign of foreign origin.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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