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The Development of Prehistoric Latin Accented

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

E. H. Sturtevant
E. H. Sturtevant*
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Yale University
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Abstract

[It is shown that Latin vīnum, vīcus, vīdī, and vīs do not continue IE forms with woi-, for the representation of which in Latin we have consequently no evidence. ]

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Language , Volume 10 , Issue 1-Part1 , March 1934, pp. 6 - 16
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Copyright © 1934 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Morphologische Untersuchungen 4.129 fn. 1 (1881).

2 Pauli's Altitalische Studien 4.156 f. (1885).

3 MSL5.43 (1884).

4 Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi 12.83 (1896).

5 Grund. 12. 186 (1897). On cūnīre, see Walde-Hofmann, Lat. Et. Wörterbuch s.v. caenum. I do not understand how *quoinom could yield dialectic *cīnom; the connection of cūnīre with caenom thus remains an insoluble riddle to me.

6 Wochenschrift für Klassische Philologie 15.1055 f. (1898).

7 Griech. Gram.3 55 fn. 1 (1900), KVG 84, 214 (1902).

8 See, e.g., Pott, Etymologische Forschungen 2.2.618 f.; Hehn, Kulturpflanzen und Hausthiere6 71.

9 MSL 15.163.

10 Festschrift für Streitberg 226 f. (1924).

11 See my Comp. Gram. of Hittite 46 fn. 30, 50 f.

12 See Buck, Gram. of Oscan and Umbrian 21.

13 See Stolz-Schmalz-Leumann, Lat. Gram.5 76 f.

14 See Von Planta, Gram. d. Oskisch-Umbrischen Dialekte 1.25; 2.652.

15 Glotta 14.27 f.

16 See A. Ernout, Les Élements Dialectaux du Vocabulaire Latin 242 f.

17 The Etymologicum Magnum, s. v. τριχάικς, ascribes the passage to Hesiod, and states explicitly that the adjective applies to the Dorians.

18 See Osthoff, Morphologische Untersuchungen 4.210; Schulze, Quaestiones Epicae 178 ff. Cf. Meillet, Aperçu d'une Histoire de la Langue Grec1 99, Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Latine, s. v. vīcus.

19 Boiling assures me by letter that he is now more certain of the correctness of the inference than when he wrote The External Evidence for Interpolation in Homer 248 f. (1925).

20 Cf. Curtius, Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie5 738.

21 BB 3.168.

22 *τριχα-fκ∈ς would have yielded * and would never have given rise to āī.

22a Brugmann, Grundr. 12. 190; held that IE oi might become Lith. ie, even when not initial; but see Wiedemann, Hdb. d. lit. Sprache. 13; Endzelin, Lett. Gram. 39 f., and references.

23 See von Planta, Gram. d. Oskisch-Umbrischen Dialekte 1.153, 287, and references; Buck, A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian 46.

24 So Danielsson, Pauli's Altitalische Studien 4.156.

25 Cf. Sommer, Hdb.2 550; see Sturtevant, Comp. Gram. of Hittite 240.

26 Cf. Buck, Gram of Osc. and Umbr. 171.

27 Cf. Renout, La Valeur du Parfait dans les Hymnes Védiques 154 ff.

28 Delbrück, Grundriss1 4.415 (1897); Brugmann, Grundriss 22.3.83 f. (1916); Meillet, BSL 25.1.95–7 (1925); Renout, Parfait 159 (1925); Hirt, Idg. Gram. 4.266 f, (1928).

29 Sturtevant, Comp. Gram. of the Hittite Lang. 247 ff.

30 Sturtevant, Comp. Gram. of Hitt. 110. For the original diphthong of IH dhēi- 'place', see op. cit. 96, 223.

31 See Kent, Lang. 2.216.

32 Lang. 2.217.

33 So Walde, Lat. Et. Wörterbuch2 s.v. vīs.

34 Stolz-Schmalz-Leumann, Lat. Gram.5 311, and references.