The alleged "lengthened" grades in the roots of some Latin nouns

Abstrakt

The article is concerned with Latin primary deverbative nouns whose lengthened root vowel is non-standard. In all the studied cases, the lengthening concerns the words with the roots ending in a voiced occlusive.

Building on the analysis carried out in this article, the hypothesis is proposed that the vowel lengthening is a result of the shift of original accent from the final syllable.

Klíčová slova

• Latin
• word formation
• lengthened grade
• accent