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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>
> So why not **sOwe:p- then? Why is *O doing an ad
> hoc dosey-doh?
I may be the right person to answer that. This is regular, for the
infix consonant always does that: it moves from its original prefix
position to the position immediately following the initial
consonantism of the root. Phrased otherwise, it moves to the position
immediately preceding the root vowel. Thus, *derk^- produces *dork^-
éye-ti, but *prek^- forms *prok^-éye-ti, all in accordance with the
original root form which was, then, in fact monosyllabic and sometimes
had an initial cluster.
Jens