Re: [tied] PIE *ts ?

Piotr:

>The Hittite example is not really damaging to the affricate solution, since
>Hittite */tk-/ lurking behind the spelling <tak->
>or <tek> is only a possibility. Which said, let me borrow the gun
>from you and shoot myself in the foot: Hitt. hartagga- points to
>*h2r.tkos rather than *h2r.tskos, and _this_ constitutes strong
>evidence that affrication in *-tt- is older than that in *tk, and
>that whereas the former is unquestionably PIE, the latter postdates the
>separation of Anatolian (and perhaps also of Tocharian).

Hmm, interesting. However, thinking more on the *xrtKos
counterexample, I can't help but notice that in this case we
have a uvular after the *t.

Could uvularity perhaps block affricatization? Perhaps the
lowness of the following *K caused retraction of *t to an
alveolar position, rather than dental, thereby causing *[tk.]
rather than expected **[tsk.]? Hmm, I need more examples of
*tK-...


- gLeN


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