[tied] Re: Satem shift

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Minor complications (such as palatalised variants) apart, we have

the following:

>
> PIE *k/*kW *k^ *s
> Sanskrit k s' s (s. in the "ruki" environment)
> Avestan k s h (s before -n- or next to a stop,

s^ by "ruki")

> Lithuanian k s^ s (s^ in the "ruki" environment)
> Albanian k th gj-,-h- (and other odd reflexes)
> Armenian kh-,-y- s h,-kh (s before stops)
> OCSl k s s (x or s^ in the "ruki"

environment)

>
> As you can see, in most branches there is a clear difference

between an "original *k", "original *k^" and "original *s". Even in
Slavic, where PIE *k^ and *s usually merged as Slavic *s, the merger
did not take place in the "ruki" environment (after *i, *u, *r or a
dorsal stop), where PIE *s changes to Slavic *x before back vowels
and *s^ before front vowels, while PIE *k^ is reflected as Slavic *s.

>
> Piotr
>
>

I suppose that means they were capable of being re-kentumised without
error (as long as the alternating inflectional paradigms survived)?

Torsten