On 2009-06-05 01:08, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> Why h2 doesn't belong to the stem? So based on what it wasn't simple
> gWenh2-?
It does belong to the stem, but the stem is a complex one
(*//gWen-eh2-//). *//gWenh2// would have developed into *gWe:n with
"Szemerényi lengthening" and loss of final *h2, which however was older
than the loss of vowels in unaccented suffixes, and so was blocked by
the presence of an underlying vowel in *-(e)h2-, yielding *gWen&2 in the
s-less nom.sg.
Piotr