Now, with different ablaut types, this apparent "stress related" vowel change, seems to be realized slightly differently. Since these ablaut patterns are highly regular, you'll see me focus primarily on the Nonnarten Acrostatic forms, as they're the easiest on the eyes to see. In reality, what I've shown can apply to pretty much all ablaut forms.
Now, regarding my original idea before the stress-related idea, I had spotted another possibility. I'd like to explore the idea, that at least in the case of the root-vowel, that the:
o-grade - Marked a sort of "default" case, including the Nominative, Vocative, and Accusative cases.
e-grade - Marked cases that were either Genetival and or Prepositional in meaning.
While not far off from my previous post, its an idea I'd like to explore further as well. It's not entirely exclusive from it either, as this system could reasonably have arisen from the previous.
Though once you get to the secondary places where you'll find vowels, such as in the stems and endings, this gets a little trickier. For instance, half the plural endings have -o- in them (Genetive, Ablative, Dative (alternatively -mus), and Ablative. Though it wouldn't necessarily contradict my hypothesis, it creates problems for my stress-related theory when it comes to certain Ablaut forms, where the ablaut vowel falls in the stem, though these differences are resolveable, it still bothers my thirst for simplicity.
As far as the verbs are concerned, I'll get to them at a later date. I want to try to not quote wikipedia twice if I can't help it. Especially since I'm less familiar with the ablaut when it comes to verbs, I won't so easily spot the error and be able to correct them. At least not at this time.
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