Q. rië² adv. “only” (Category: Alone, Only)
An adverb appearing in a marginal note to Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969 glossed “only” with an adjectival variant rëa “single”, both derived from ✶rē “single item taken out of a (long) series” and hence related to ré “day” (PE22/158).
Reference ✧ PE22/158 ✧ rie “only”
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Phonetic Developments
| ✶rē > rie | [reje] > [rie] | ✧ PE22/158 |