Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule

From: tgpedersen
Message: 39604
Date: 2005-08-12

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> > >It may put things into perspective to remember that the
> > > thematic vowel rule is still directly observable in Modern
Greek
> > and
> > > in part also in some Slavic languages,
> >
> > On the subject, Russian has, in what looks to me like athematic
> > verbs either
> >
> > berú
> > berës^
> > berët
> > (-ë- = -yó-)
> >
> > or
> >
> > mogú
> > móz^es^
> > móz^et
>
> Sure, and other Slavic languages have similar patterns reflecting
> the e/o interchange. What are you trying to say by quoting these
> forms?

I am asking a question: Are these stress patterns inherited
unchanged from PIE? If yes, why does the latter stress like
Latin 'sum' ?


Torsten