Re: [tied] I'm back with a few questions

> But if the preterite comes from the PIE perfect de-reduplicated

already

> in pre-Germanic times, it's imaginalble that a pair *bHebHór-,

*bHebHr-'

> ended up as *bHor-, *bHe:r- through some kind of haplological

reduction

> (carried out so as not to leave the stem asyllabic), combined with
> compensatory lengthening.

Also, in those stems where the initial consonant C1 was subject to
Grimm, the reduplicated forms C1eC1C2- the second occurence of C1
would be subject to Verner, which made the stem unrecognizable. Then
better leave it out altogether, with compensatory lengthening of the
vowel (perhaps via a diphthong).


Torsten