Re: [tied] Re: *-tro-/*-tlo-

On 2007-06-22 21:38, stlatos wrote:

> There is no ev. that árthron < *xarxYtrom; it seems odd that it
> would be the ONLY word in Greek not to have the analogy you require
> return the second h. If you say that there was no reason for ana. in
> this word, I'd ask why it occurs in others even when the h disappears
> in other words from the same roots.

Analogy is capricious. The effects of Verner's Law have been eliminated
from the English verb system except for one last Mohican, <was/were>. I
don't know if <ártHron> is the only example of its kind; the idea
occurred to me while we were talking and I haven't yet started looking
for others.

Piotr