Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > On 2008-02-27 07:21, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> >
> > > <probably >
> >
> > And this one, by the way, is often further affected by irregular
> > haplology, yielding "prob'ly" in colloquial English.
>
> Or is it simply syncopation followed by degemination - "probably" >
> "prob'bly" > "prob'ly"?
>

If my ears don't deceive me, there was no degemination. No one says
*probly, at least yet; it's still two-and-a-half syllable prob'bly.


Torsten