Re: Gmc. w-/g-, j-/g-

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 68112
Date: 2011-10-19

W dniu 2011-10-18 22:08, stlatos pisze:

> Lehmann rejected reduplication as the cause because he started w *
> stestud+ and said, correctly, that dis. of st-st > st-s was unlikely. Of
> course, there's no reason to start w * stestud+ since no IE supports PIE
> reduplication of C-clusters.

Gothic and Tocharian partly do (full reduplication *sTV-sT- is attested
there), though *sV-sT- is probably the "original" IE pattern.

Piotr