On 2008-03-29 21:01, fournet.arnaud wrote:
> Who agrees with you ?
>
> Watkins for example ?
Whether *o was originally long or not, at least it behaved in some
respects like a long vowel. For example, we have two patterns of
alternation in acrostatic roots: *o/*e and *e:/*e. In both cases the
_weak_ variant has the full vowel *e, which functions as the reduced
counterpart of either *o or *e:.
Piotr