--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...> wrote:
> On 2006-01-14 00:59, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
> > And then this -i- from -ro-/-u- and presumably
> i-stem
> > adjectives was subsequently transferred to the
> others?
>
> o-stems also have archaic compositional variants
> with *-i (e.g. *dwi-),
> so no transfer is needed to explain "the others".
kW dual
ík feminine
dawáy+kW gWànxá+ík+s
dawáy+kW gWànxa+ík+s
dawáikW gWànxaíks
dawáikW gWànxa'iks
dawáikW gWànxáiks
dwáikW gWànxáiks
dwáixW gWànxáixs
dwáixW gWànxáix_
dwáixW gWànxá:ix
dwóixW gWènxó:ix
dwóxW gWènxó:x
dwóxW gWènxá:x
dwóxW dwów gWènxá:x
two (neuter) woman (nom.)
dawáy+kW+s
dwó:xW dwó:w
two (masc. nom.)
affixes delete any tone on previous syllable
(repeats)
morpheme addition
glide to high vowel syl-final
a>0 between C and more sonor. C or G etc.
k^/k/kW > x^/x/xW word-finally
k^/k/kW > x^/x/xW before word-final C
s>0 before C+sonorant or +continuant
if vowel before Cs>C_ has marked tone it lengthens
a with high tone to o
a with low tone to e
a with mid tone to e (underlying)
a > o before n/m/w
a > e
i>0/V_X#
x^/x/xW change the non-high vowels
x^/xW > y/w between vowels
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