loss of intervocalic sigma

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 30 13:19:55 EDT 2002


At 9:04 AM -0700 8/30/02, Richard A. Stauch wrote:
>Hi Carl,
>
>In my hard copy of Smyth, #120 is on pages 30-31.

You are, of course, quite right; I was looking at a hard copy and trying to
type while reading the page numbers. I do make mistakes that way.

At 2:20 PM +0000 8/30/02, James Tauber wrote:
>#58 mentions QE(S)OS and talks about why it doesn't become QOUS.

Yes, I see this now--it's not in the index. I still have my doubts,
however, that there was originally a -S- or that the root of QEOS was ever
QESO-. Of course, I could be wrong about that too, but I haven't seen any
evidence for it.
-- 

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