Re: [tied] Re: stop/fricative

On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 21:46:06 -0000, "apiquinamir" <apiquinamir@...> wrote:

>Is it common in PIE for roots to have similar meaning and differ in
>only the difference of the value of a certain sound (as in pleu-
>/bhleu-, noting that bh is a voiced aspirant of p), and is this how
>distinctions were made in meaning?

No, it's not common, and it's not a known grammatical mechanism.

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