Re: [tied] Macedonian x Greek

It looks as if the common ancestor of Greek and Macedonian (I'd add Phrygian as their next of kin) had had a breathy-voiced series, and the development *dH > *tH (followed by Grassmann's Law) had been restricted to Greek. The Macedonian evidence is too uncertain to decide how the labiovelars developed in the language. We have <niba> 'snow, spring', which seems to support the change of *gWH > b, but the word may be a loan from Greek. *w survived in Macedonian, and there is a possible example of *w > b ([v]?) word-initially (bedu < *wedo:r).

Piotr

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Did Macedonian retained or drop the digamma (w) ?

Joao SL
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From: João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@...>
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> I've already known tha case of Berenike. Macedonian considered a
> sister-language of Greek? The common ancestor might have sonorae aspiratae or sonorae fricativae yet.
> What was the labio-velar development in Macedonian ? kWe/kWo > pe/po,
ke/ko, te/ko or kwe/kwo ?