Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
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> > On 2008-11-11 19:40, tgpedersen wrote:
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> > > > Does such a ghost haunt *waskanã 'wash' as well?
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> > > Erh, what?
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> > Another closed syllable (ruling out any Brugmannoid effects).
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> You're right I'd have to appeal to analogy.
> So would you with your composite class VI.

Another solution would be to invoke compensatory lengthening in
dereduplicated verbs, since the corresponding reduplicated verbs in
Gothic have invariable /a/.


Torsten