Re: PIE Ablaut

From: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Message: 41142
Date: 2005-10-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:

> Wait a minute. Could the long vowel in Skt. -Vma:na- have come from
> analogy with -Ca:na-? The latter derives regularly from *-Cmhno-.
> Avestan would then preserve the expected development of *-Vmhno-.

Yes, that's the very idea of the analysis as presented by Gert
Klingenschmitt in 1975 (V. Fachtagung der Idg.Gs.).

Jens