Re: [tied] Alternating foot

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-10-07 15:09, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > upabdá- ?
>
> I was talking about the declension of 'foot'.

I thought I was too.

> Compounds are different;
> there's often some extra segmental shrinkage there. *gWou- 'cow' may
> also appear as *-gWu- in a compound, but not elsewhere, cf. Skt.
> s'ata-gu-, Gk. hekatómbe:.

A-hem. Root vowels don't go away ever, except in special cases.
Shouldn't this rather lead us to construe those cases of acrostatic
root nouns where we'd expect zero grade, but find something else, as
reconstructed?

BTW, am I right in assuming that in nominal O-V constructions of
the type X-i-Y (dragon-slayer) that the root vowel is in zero or
o-grade?


Torsten