Re: [tied] Re: nu:któs

nux has its -u- vowel by Cowgill's Law. Can that apply to long vowel -o-, or produce a long -u- (which seems unlikely)? Or does its operation in this word mean the -u- must be short?

Peter

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: nu:któs

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)?

Piotr