Re: [tied] Grammar structure of the various stages of IE

Correction:

>... However, Semitoid loans enter the language at this stage and whatever
>numerals had existed for "six" and "seven" before this were supplanted by
>*swekse and *septem.

That should be *sWekse with a labialized dental sibilant. Labialized
dental phonemes regularly become de-phonemicized in late MIE. Thus
MIE *tW > eLIE *tw and *sW > *sw, yet velar *kW remains as is.


- gLeN


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