"re [tied] -phóros, -phorós, -fer"

Apologies if a bit circumstantial, but I am
reminded by this exchange of the difficulties
which many speakers of other languages have with
place names in Scotland and maybe Ireland where
the stressed syllable is perceived as short and
the unstressed as long. And maybe a similar
problem with Gaelic - eg bradàn (or bradán in the
Irish spelling).

Merely anecdotal, but the processes we examine
are (as with geological processes) repeated over
time.

Gordon
<gordonselway@...>

At 8:46 last Sunday evening Rob wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>> On 2006-04-09 16:41, Rob wrote:
>> > What are the accentuations for _dharma-bhr.t-_ and _nr.-han-_?
>> > I would guess at _dhárma-bhr.t-_ and _nr.-hán-_, but I could be
>> > wrong.
>
>> Actually, the Vedic accent is on the second member in both types,
>> and more generally in all "agentive" verbal compounds with a
>> governed first member.
>
>Hmm, it seems odd for _dharma-bhr.t'-_ to have its second member
>accented, given the zero-grade quality of the syllable. Do you
>think that's an innovation on Vedic's part?
>
>> > Also, with the Latin forms, could it be possible that _-spex_
>> > and _-ceps_ actually come from *-spoks and *-kops?
>>
>> I don't think so.
>
>Well, why not?
>
>- Rob