From: tgpedersen
Message: 40346
Date: 2005-09-22
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...>wrote:
> >Interesting analogy, since 'put' doubly can't be PIE
> > Mate on my exception to Vowel Shift:
> > > This doesn't sound very serious. Do you honestly
> > > believe this "explanation" is acceptable?
> > > It's like finding an unchanged IE *o instead of
> > > _a_ in Germanic, [...]
> >
> > Boy, you aren't kidding. It would be as silly
> > as finding an unchanged *t in Germanic in the word
> > *okto:.
>
> I think English _put_ (as opposed to the regular development _putt_,
> cf. _but_) would be a better analogy.
>