W dniu 2011-06-15 00:39, stlatos pisze:
> If there was -u- due to C>uC in widomo, how would that allow it to
> experience the same effects as your *buDma- ? How old are you saying
> Kluge's Law is? Didn't you say bottom < PIE -mn- , too?
Give me some time to develop the argument. I have just started and will
continue tomorrow. As for <weotuma> etc., there are also forms without
*u, and these need not to be explained, since they may continue the
strong stem of PGmc. *wet-man- directly.
Kluge's Law operated in PGmc. "inside" Grimm's Law (after the change of
PIE *t and *dH into fricatives, not earlier than Verner's Law, but
before the devoicing of PIE plain voiced stops). The relative chronology
of that sequence of changes can be established very accurately.
Piotr