From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 64030
Date: 2009-06-04
>So if is not 'too late', YES IT CAN, isn't it?
> On 2009-06-04 23:29, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > (If you can enumerate all the cases than do it, but please don't write
> > 'well-defined environment' etc... -> it means nothing)
>
> It means a lot if the environment is indeed well-defined. In vr.ddhied
> adjectives based on the zero grade of roots of the type *CReC- the
> infixed vowel may appear before rather after the resonant, producing
> *CeRC-o-. The showcase example is *deiw-o- (cf. *dje:u-s/*diw-ós);
> another one is the 'birch' word, *bHerh1g^-o-, and *g^Heim-o- is the
> third that comes to mind. I suppose the list is nearly exhaustive by
> now, at least as regards demonstrably old words.
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > So 'a secondary e-grade' can or cannot have ablaut-forms on its turn, in
> > your opinion?
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Not if it originated too late to produce them, and these adjectives are
> generally regarded as late formations.
>
> Piotr