Re: [tied] Slavic *sUto -> is NOT INHERIT

On 2007-02-08 11:39, Sean Whalen wrote:

> My derivation starts with im; if im>uw in
> some environments as ju>ji, etc, this could
> be a regularly inherited word.

*ju > *ji is part of a more general rule (vowel fronting after *j).
What's that got to do with *sUto?

> Others with
> *mt could change due to analogy.

The single example with *m. > *U is "regular" and all the
counterexamples are analogical? This gives a new meaning to the notion
of regularity ;-)

> The exact
> analogy depends on the order of various
> changes, but here's a simple possibility:
>
> de-simt de-sim-tos simtom
> de-sint de-sim-tos simto
> de-sint de-sim-tus simto
> de-sint de-sum-tus sumto
> de-sint de-sim-tus sumto ana.
> de-sint de-sim-tus suwto
> etc.

What's this *uw thing supposed to be? The first syllable of *sUto is
light and contains a short reflex of short *u. If *uw is equivalent to
*u:, the Common Slavic outcome would have been *syto. If it isn't, what
do you need this *w for?

Piotr