[tied] Re: sum

Jasanoff grounds his assumption of ablauting presents in the existence
of Narten presents ablauting /e/ vs. /e:/. Not having read the article
I don't know by what devious strategem Narten obtains that
alternation; the forever quoted paradigm is Sanskrit 3rd sg stáuti
(< *stéu-ti), 3rd pl. stuvánti (< *stu-ónti), no less semi-thematic
than *hés-ti, *h1s-ónti, or *bhér-ti, *bhr-ónti, ie stressed -o-
before voiced sound, unstressed -e- elsewhere. Ur-paradigm strikes
again.

Torsten