From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60400
Date: 2008-09-27
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern
Caucasian and Indo-European
>
> 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
>
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Thank you, M. Gasiorowski.
In other words, *trei is never attested under a full *e grade, like *ter- in
PIE !?
Arnaud