Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
wrote:

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

wrote:

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> >
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> > >> No, we can't because of the attested plural forms
> > >> with zerograded *h1s-, not **s-. Note Hittite
> > >> /asanzi/ "they are" < *h1sonti.
> > >
> > > Unless that's a prothetic a-.
> >
> > Then I guess Greek /odous/ also has a prothetic
> > vowel from an earlier **dont- (normally *h1dont-)?
> > Not very likely.
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> *dont derives from *ed. In some Greek dialects it's even preserved

as

> edont. Prothetic vowels in Greek tend to be a bit unstable and
> sometimes assimilate to the following vowel, perhaps as in the case
> above. Greek, it seems, retains the full grade where other

languages

> have the zero grade.

If after the laryngeal turned vowel the paradigm included stems
*edont- and *edent- it's not surprising if a hypercorrect stem like
*odont- should appear.


Torsten