Re: [tied] Daughter (was: Short and long vowels)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> As another application of the rule, this stress is the
> nearest the nominative singular can come to having the stress of the
> vocative, _thúgater_.

Another, perhaps less mystical, way of imagining this in concrete
terms is: The influence of the vocative thúgater changed the nom.
*thugaté:r to *thúgate:r which then, by the emerging limitation rules
of the Greek accent, developed into thugáte:r.

Jens