Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

On 2008-09-27 10:26, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

> How do you get Latin tertius out of *trei ?

*tri-ti-ó-, with a development of *-ri- into a secondary syllabic *[r.]

> er before a coronal (even in accented syllables). It's parallelled by

*tri-st-i- > *terstis > testis 'witness' (but Osc. trístaamentúd) and
*tris 'thrice' (numerous cognates outside Italic) > *tr.s > *ters, *terr

> ter.

Piotr