W dniu 2012-02-22 22:15, dgkilday57 pisze:
> But the acute accent requires a short vowel, so it must be zero-grade.
In the reconstructible PIE pattern one normally expects e-grade and root
accent in the neuter and zero-grade and final accent in the collective,
so the original pattern may have been /*gWéh2-tro-m/ --> *gWáh2tHrom,
*/gWh2-tré-h2/ --> *gW&2tráh2, levelled out in Greek (which generally
does not preserve the accentual contrast), with the accent and the
consonants of the original singular and the short vowel of the collective.
Piotr