Re: Degrees of comparation

Nik Taylor wrote:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > What makes you decide that /a/ is chosen from the base in _dadiá_,
> > rather than /i/ (--> *didiá)?
>
> Because in that case, the _i_ is a glide.  D'iá is /dja/, phonetically
> realized as [dja] or [dza], depending on dialect.
Okay.  An alternative could still be *<yadia>.  (That's not a problem, any
more than it is in Phaleran.)

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