Re: PIE h2ei- h1ai- h4ei- 'to take/to give'

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:45:53 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<miguelc@...> wrote:

>Short (it's aínumai, with recessive accent, as all Greek
>verbs: if the /u/ had been long, it would have had to be
>ainûmai [note that -mai counts as _short_, it's *-maj not
>*-mai]).

Sorry, my mistake. It's long. Only if the _last_ syllable is
long is antepenultimate accent not allowed. Since the last
syllable here is short (-maj), the penultimate can be long,
and the stress can still fall on the antepenultimate (_must_
fall, in a recessive form).

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