Re: [MTLR] RE: The Vocalic Theory (PIE *al-)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 58718
Date: 2008-05-20

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
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> >> I can see stricken, drunken, known, beaten,
> >> No example of -/a/- ?
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> >Not relevant, but, since you ask, _spat_.
>
> Sorry,
> you mean spit spat spatten ??

Do the semantic matter? Are these adjectives ('drunken' isn't a past
participle any more) or past participles?

There is a past participle if that is what you looking for, which I
have met occasionally - 'shatten', e.g.
http://thekcshow.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html .