Reconstruction talk:Proto-Brythonic/molọd
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[edit]@Anglom Can you check this? —CodeCat 20:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you mean. Anglom (talk) 22:26, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
- Verify that it's correct. I'm asking this based on what you said before about the vowel shortening in -ā- verbs. —CodeCat 22:30, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
- These are a different type of verb, formed from *-eh₂yeti rather than from *-n(e)h₂ti (< from roots ending in *-h₂). The latter type generalized the short vowel from the plural to the singular, sg. *-néh₂ti, pl. *-nh₂énti > *-nāti, *-nanti > *-nati, *-nanti. Proto-Celtic actually had a few zero-grade nasal present formants, *-na-, *-nu-, *-ni-; but I don't know the extent to which the latter two survived in Brythonic. Anglom (talk) 23:08, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
- Oh! That makes a lot more sense now, thank you! -na- and -nu- I understand, but I don't know where -ni- came from. Maybe a certain bunch of knights... —CodeCat 23:34, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
- These are a different type of verb, formed from *-eh₂yeti rather than from *-n(e)h₂ti (< from roots ending in *-h₂). The latter type generalized the short vowel from the plural to the singular, sg. *-néh₂ti, pl. *-nh₂énti > *-nāti, *-nanti > *-nati, *-nanti. Proto-Celtic actually had a few zero-grade nasal present formants, *-na-, *-nu-, *-ni-; but I don't know the extent to which the latter two survived in Brythonic. Anglom (talk) 23:08, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
- Verify that it's correct. I'm asking this based on what you said before about the vowel shortening in -ā- verbs. —CodeCat 22:30, 23 September 2016 (UTC)