From: tgpedersen
Message: 55840
Date: 2008-03-24
>Nice. But I was wondering about 'descendidit' There's a 'de' too many.
> On 2008-03-23 20:35, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Anybody want to comment?
>
> Yes. LIV has *skend- (> *skand- as in Lat. scando: by Schrijver's
> plain velar colouring, which means that the alleged "vocalisme
> expressif et populaire" is in fact lautgesetzlich. The Ved. aor.inj.
> skán is a regular reflex of *skánd-t; the *d is visible everywhere
> else, including Ved. skándati < *skánd-e/o- caskanda < *(s)ke-skónd-e,
> skandáyati < skond-éje/o-.