Re: [tied] Thematic vowel - *to, *so

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> Torsten:
> > The deictic particles *so and *to have /o/ instead
> > of /e/, like nice particles should. Maybe that's
> > because the /o/'s are re-stressed ablaut vowels?
>
> Or rather, *o is (by way of Vowel Shift) from *a.
> Hence earlier *sa and *ta(t) when stressed. Only *&
> ends up alternating between *e and *o after Schwa
> Diffusion and Merger so we don't find **se and **te-.
>

Aha. You explain their deviance from normal practice by proposing that
they were always different. Ingenious.


Torsten