Re: [tied] Re: nu:któs

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:03:04 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-04-02 05:03, david_russell_watson wrote:
>
>> My copy of 'Etymological Lexicon of Classical Greek'
>> by E. R. Wharton gives 'ainumai' with a short 'u'.
>> No forms for 'nux' are listed besides the nominative.
>
><aside> Welcome back, David. I'm very happy to see you here again. </aside>
>
>As for <nuks, nukt->, I have no idea what prompted Pokorny to mark the
>vowel as long in the oblique stem. Of course the rootr syllable is
>always heavy by position, but I've never seen any other dictionary
>suggest vowel length here (and on what grounds should it be posited)?

The only possibility I can think of is that the vowel was
given as long in this word in the writings of some Ancient
Greek grammarian.

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