Re: Spirantized puzzle

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > This is strange:
> > >
> > > Skt. Nsg pitá, Ds pitré (< *pitréi)
> > >
> > > Av. Nsg ptá:, Ds fðrái (< *pitréi)

> > It's a result of the r:

> You didn't get it. The puzzle was why Skt. looks like a generalization
> from Avestan Nsg, and PGerm like a generalization from Avestan Dsg.

The Avestan paradigm is the result of Avestan rules.

> I'm arguing that PIE paradigms alternated like Avestan and that
> various daughter language arrived at their paradigms by various
> generalizations of those paradigm. If that is so, Grimm and Verner was
> something that happened inside PIE, not in PGerm.

Not all words have paradigms; not all paradigms have forms that put
all consonants next to other consonants.