From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 63819
Date: 2009-04-15
>Well, wouldn't one expect Greek *po:s in the nominative singular from IE *po:ts? Odoús has <ou> from *ons (< *onts), which became nasalized *õs which became a long vowel higher than Greek <o:> which was therefore written <ou> (hence <-ous>. At least that's what I've always assumed. Where would <ou> come from in <poús>? Normally *ts becomes <s> in Greek, does it not, without influencing a preceding vowel, long or short? Or am I wrong here? What is the 2nd sg. indic. pres. of *h1ed- in Greek? What other monosyllabic consonant stems end in *-ts < *-ds in PIE (and in Greek)?
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@> wrote:
> >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.
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> 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:?
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