Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

Maybe not quite degeminate yet for ev'ryone but
getting there. I've heard /pra:bliy/ as well as
/pra:b-bliy/ and also something like like /pra:b?liy/
with some kind of hiatus

In Spanish probablemente /proBaBlemente/ sometimes
comes out as /praalemente/ in rapid colloquial speech

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- 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
>
>
>

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