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Re: [romconlang] nominative of "Iovis"?



On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:12:01 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email>
wrote:
>> > 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:


Because that's the pattern found in Vedic Sanskrit.
Remember that long and short diphthongs are kept
apart in Sanskrit!


/BP 8^)
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