Re: [tied] Re: PIE genitive plural *-o:m, a possible analysis

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From: etherman23

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Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:13 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: PIE genitive plural *-o:m, a possible analysis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <proto-language@...> wrote:
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>   The simplest permissible word-form in PIE was *CA, where *A
represents the Ablaut-vowel that, at the next earliest stage,
manifested itself as *é when stress-accented, or *Ø when not
stress-accented.

So are you suggesting that PIE had words of the form C?

 

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Patrick:

 

Yes, stress-unaccented forms of *CA. The Musterbeispiel would be *N (from *n <- *né).

 

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>   The commonest word-form was *CACA, which, in accordance with the
rule that the penultimate syllable was stress-accented, appears in the
next earliest stage as *CéCØ (from *CÁCA).

Where would a word like *kWis come from?

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Patrick:

 

*kWé + *yé = *kWéyØ + *sé = *kWØyésØ; when stress-unaccented *kWØyØsØ -> *kWis.

 

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