From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 55589
Date: 2008-03-21
> 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"?Yes. My <senam> was an obvious typo.
>> 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>?