Re: PIE *i < *e/o [was: Finnish KASKA]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:29:17 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-02-23 00:34, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
>> That might work (not for *dwi-, though), I'll think about it.
>
>It would work for *dwi- as well, since some types of compounds involving
>numerals did not retract the accent. Relevant examples include
>*(d)wi-dk^m.t-íh1 and thematic derivatives like *[dwi-h2p]-ó- 'island'.

I was thinking more of forms like *dwís "twice", with stress
on *dwí-, or *dwikós "double", with the stress only one
syllable removed.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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