From: stlatos
Message: 67759
Date: 2011-06-13
>I thought you said that Cmn > Cn in PIE to expl. IE alt. w -mo/no-.
> W dniu 2011-06-13 01:11, stlatos pisze:
> > It isn't invisible; there's -u- in Gmc. It would be difficult to
> > explain why -u- disappeared elsewhere if it weren't -w- first (since
> > w- in the word allows dis.).
>
> Thus, instead of wondering how this *u disappeared elsewhere it might be
> more productive to think of how it could have arisen in Germanic. One
> simple possibility is this: the weak stem of *(h1)wed-mon- was
> *(h1)wed-m.n- > pre-Gmc. *wedumn-, hence a new strong stem, *wedumon-.
> No prestidigitation needed.