From: Torsten
Message: 65156
Date: 2009-09-30
> > > Can you explain Greek <tri:'bo:> 'I rub', 2nd aor. pass.I didn't claim it did. Paradigm leveling as described. Note the asterisk.
> > > <etri'be:n> with short /i/?
> >
> > Greek is not my strong suit, but this one I think I can handle by
> > means of another rule I proposed; see the discussion starting in
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46106
> > and
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47212
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46183
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/49523
> > In casu: tri:b- is a cross between the forms occurring in 3sg
> > *tréIb- and 3pl *trimb-´.
>
> But this verb does not have nasalized forms in Greek.
> Note that <lambano:>, <manthano:>, ktl. have double nasalization inRoot -a-, hm. Back-formed from the 3pl. *lamb-ánti, *manth-ánti of some a-language (re the last, I assume the nasalization in the present stem spread from stems with voiced unasp. stops in auslaut to those with other types of stops)?
> the whole present stem similar to those Hittite 3pl. forms.