From: dubbelax
Message: 63816
Date: 2009-04-15
>The Greek word for foot, <poús, gen. sg. podós>, has a spurious diphthong in the nom. sg. whose origin I don't think has ever been satisfactorily explained.Am I wrong if I think that such a "diphthong" is a regular (e.g. in Ionic) outcome of compensatory lengthening due to the loss of -d-, comparable with odoús/odóntos and such? That it is simply a way how to write a long o:, which is different from another (lower) o:?