Re: [tied] Re: Ie. *laywos/leh2iwos (was: ka and k^a)

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:53:33 +0200 (CEST), Mate Kapoviæ
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>On Ned, rujan 25, 2005 1:00 am, Miguel Carrasquer reèe:
>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:41:13 +0200 (CEST), Mate Kapoviæ
>> <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>>
>>>On Ned, rujan 25, 2005 12:20 am, Miguel Carrasquer reèe:
>>>> *ah2i would produce a circumflex, at least that's what
>>>> happens in the Auslaut (Lith -ai, no Saussure's law).
>>>> Then again *lah2iwós (if that's a possible form at all)
>>>> would probably have given a long vowel in Greek (hard to
>>>> sure because of Osthoff's law, but I'd expect *la:(i)ós ~
>>>> *le:(i)ós like, say, o:ión).
>>>
>>>*leh2iwós should behave like *h2o:wyóm? Why?
>>
>> Becuase they have nearly identical structure (post-laryngeal
>> *la:iwós, *o:uyóm).
>
>Can we be sure that *leh2iwós would yield *la:ywos and not *laywos? That
>would depend on whether it was *leh2iwós or *leh2ywós. Hmm...

According to Jens' rules concerning "long diphthongs", a
form *leh2iwós would not be possible. The expected
structure would be either stressed and metathesized
*léih2wos or unstressed *lh2iwós, neither of which could
have given Slavic lêvU (ap c).

The full grade of the root is unremarkable if the word
contains etymological */a/, since the zero grade of */a/ is
*/a/, as in *nas- obl. *nas-; *sal- obl. *sal-, etc. Since
these are acrostatic formations, we would expect Ablaut
*oN/*eN (*noNs-, obl. *neNs-), and apparently the reflexes
of *oN and *eN merged, Old-Polish-style, as **/aN/ (> */a/).

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