Re: dhuga:ter

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:59:34 -0500, "Patrick Ryan"
<proto-language@...> wrote:

>There are only two possibilities for explaining those data.
>
>1 )Two words were in circulation; and for unknown reasons the stem with -k
>was preferred for the nominative singular; or
>
>2) 'laryngeal' hardening of a stem ending in a 'laryngeal' in a given
>phonotactic situations.
>
>
>Of the two, the second is the far more probable.
>
>
>You have proved your case as far as I am concerned.

I had actually quite forgotten that the acc. of senex is
senem, but it is indeed an important argument.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was precisely senex ~ senem
what led Martinet to look into the matter of laryngeal
hardening in the first place.

>Now, do you ever do salmon?

Sure. But my favorite is angler fish ("sea-devil", rap,
rape, lotte, z.abnica, Lophius piscatorius).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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