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

On 2007-06-26 20:01, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:

> I don't know, but all theories will have to live with that problem.
> One possibility is accent shift half-way through the process of
> producing zero-grade: *werH1-tó- > *worH1-tó- > *wrH1tó- > *wr.thó-
> ; at the stage *worH1-, the o-vowel spread to the collective which
> was stressed on the initial.

This could be compared with other Balto-Slavic (secondary?) full grades
in nouns of this structure. Cf. Germanic *Gulþa- 'gold' < *g^Hl.'h3-to-
vs. Slavic *zolto- and Baltic *z^elta-.

Piotr