Re: [G] and [g] and PIE voiced plosives

> , and geminated stems are short-vowel already).
> > The only words in Dutch that match the top group is ruw/ruig. Note
> > the double form: -u- /ü/ is from /u/, -ui- /öÜ/ is from /u:/, so
> > that one suspects there was once a similar length-changing rule for
> > Dutch.
>
> I suspect that Dutch <ruw> is from forms similar to OE <ru:wes>,
> <ru:wa> etc., the inflected forms of <ru:h> (beside <ru:gan> etc., and
> usually <ru:hne> <ru:hra> before consonants). Thus the forms that
> gave OE <ru:h> became Dutch <ruig> while the forms that gave OE
> <ru:w-> became Dutch <ruw>, i.e. from forms with a long vowel, not
> short.

Are you positive (outside of what the textbook says) that it was not
instead /rux/, /ru:wes/?


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