Re: *a/*a: ablaut

On 2008-02-14 20:35, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> So you adhere to the same Ablaut-joker theory
> as Piotr but with no extra -a-.
>
> How do you account for a supposed split
> of *a into *e versus *o ?
>
> Greek clearly has monosyllabic words
> like klo:ps "stealer" versus kleptein "steal"
> etc
> I see no accentual pattern
> to cause a split.

You are new to this list. You've missed a lot: ablaut has been discussed
here again and again and again. Accent isn't everything. Try checking it
up in the archives.

Piotr