From: Andrei Markine
Message: 8307
Date: 2001-08-04
>--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:Recentumization would require restoration of the lost distinction between
> > 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