Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 55127
Date: 2008-03-13

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:15:12 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

>In addition to barba:tus ISSUE , it seems that Olsen's laryngeal
>metathesis h-t > t-h is never applicable for -tor , -ti, -tu suffixes

That's a keen observation by D. Gary Miller ("Latin Suffixal
Derivatives in English").

Since *-tor, *-ti and *-tu are all unstressed suffixes, and
Olsen's rules *do* apply to *-tr-ó- (*-tl-ó-) [a thematized,
and stressed, derivative of *-tor], maybe that could solve
some of the issues. *-tó- is of course inherently stressed
(and so is *-áh2-, I think, but not *-eh1-).

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