From: tgpedersen
Message: 62217
Date: 2008-12-20
>In verbal stems, or have you changed your mind?
> On 2008-12-20 17:43, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > The reason *tómos type nouns have initial stress is that they are
> > de-compounded verbal stems, if memory serves.
>
> No, it's your private theory, not a fact.
>
> > I think you mean to say that tómos/tomós type generation became
> > independently productive. On verbal stems, that is.
>
> I meant something else, but the very existence of the
> tómh1o-/*tomh1ó- contrast shows that accentual differences need not
> be accompanied by ablaut changes.