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Ablaut

Dear CodeCat,

Thank you for checking my work! I agree that I confused ablaut and Szemerényi's law (I am new at this) but is it true that "all categories that were distinguished by ablaut were also distinguished by different endings"? What about:

'night'

nominative singular: *nókʷ-t-s

genitive singular: *nékʷ-t-s

'thought'

nominative singular: *mén-ti-s

genitive singular: *mn̥-téi-s or *mn̥-téy-s

It seems to me like ablaut is the only thing distinguishing them.

Thanks for you help,

Jackpaulryan (talk) 22:32, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

In the case of *nókʷts you're right, ablaut is the only difference. CodeCat (talk) 23:34, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Jackpaulryan (talk) 01:16, 29 July 2017 (UTC)