Re: [tied] Glen's Strange Rule

>>OK, thank you very much. Was this disappearance of /a/ (= /&/ ?) in
>>the first syllable part of a general disappearance of /a/ in Etruscan?
>
>Actually, I'm not sure if I understand you, Marc. I've proposed
>that the initial accent avoids *a in Tyrrhenian, of course, and this
>would have caused initial consonant clusters for a temporary point
>in time (*p:arowa > *p:rowa > *rowa > Etr. /ruva/). However,
>this doesn't mean Etruscan lacked instances of /a/ in the first
>syllable, because it *does* have /a/ all over. There are alternations
>of /e/ versus /a/ such as /cer-/ or /car-/ "to make", for instance.
>Plus, if Piotr's input is relevant here, there may be exceptions
>of the form *CaCa- with accent on the *first* syllable. Etruscan
>should retain the first /a/ in these cases.

OK, thanks. I found it strange that a stressed *a could disappear, but AFAIU
it was never a stressed *a? First *a became the least marked vowel (role of
schwa), and later initial accent arose (but not on the "schwa")?

Marc