On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:00:02 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
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piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>Another question: via what stages did *h3 disappear? If through being lenited, how did it avoid a merger with [w]?
It didn't always quite avoid that (*dweh3 > dwo:w ~ dwo:). To answer your
question: apparently what *h3 did was to dump its labial component onto the
nearest vowel [including the "prop-vowel" when in syllabic position] (eh3 > oh,
h3e > ho, Ch3C > Ch°C) and then it went the way of plain *h1 or *h2 (eh3 > oh >
o:, h3e > ho > o, Ch3C > Ch°C > C°C).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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