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> Firstly, for reasons I do not understand, Palmer indicates the stem as> /*dye:u-/ (with a long diphthong) when talking about the nominative > and accusative forms, but /*dyew-/ when talking about the genitive. I'm > not sure why; I had thought the stem was a simple short diphthong: /eu/. > Was there a different length in the nom. and acc.? It looks like /*gwou-/> also had a different diphthong length in the nominative ..... This is a common pattern for root nouns in PIE. Note also po:t-s vs pod- ("foot") without diphthong, where it is regular (recomposed from **po:s)Interesting. Is this lengthening then common in the nominative and accusative both, but not the other cases? Or usually just the nominative?
Well, the non-diphthongal root nouns only had the long vowel in the nom.sg. The "long nom.sg." pattern may have transferred analogically to the diphthongals, helped along by that the diphthongals already had a long vowel naturally in the acc.sg. That's what I get from Sihler, anyway, tho I'm not entirely sure how believable that is.
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