From: Carlton Winbery (winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net)
Date: Wed Dec 31 1997 - 00:22:37 EST
Carl Conrad responded to Stephen;
>Stephen Carlson has kindly called my attention (off-list!) to my gaffe in
>citation of the opening line of the Iliad: the genitive form of the last
>word is and must be ACILHOS with a single lambda
This spelling of the genitive (ACILHOS) convinced James Brooks and I that
what happened with this class of nouns is that there was a reversal of
values (H became E and O became W) and that the resulting form was treated
as one vowel sound for accent purposes, thus PO/LEWS sg. and PO/LEWN pl.
Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
Pineville, LA 71359
winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net
winbery@andria.lacollege.edu
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