Re[4]: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 55589
Date: 2008-03-21

At 8:41:35 PM on Thursday, March 20, 2008, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 6:54:17 PM on Thursday, March 20, 2008, Patrick Ryan
>> wrote:

[...]

>>> What, exactly, changed *a to *e "regularly"?

>> You mean to get from *senáks and *senam to <senex> and
>> <senam>? In non-initial closed syllables *a and *e merge as
>> /e/ in Latin.

> Is the accusative not <senem>?

Yes. My <senam> was an obvious typo.

Brian