Re: [tied] Palatalization

From: alex_lycos
Message: 21807
Date: 2003-05-12

m_iacomi wrote:
>> gWei-2 > g'iu or Latin vivus > g'iu?
>
> Stop producing nonsensical links. Regional forms are by no means
> older than regular ones and they are by no means signs of mysterious
> conservation of PIE phonetism
>
> Cheers,
> Marius Iacomi


labials becoming palatals ?
just an myserious accidentaly transformation which render the child word
from PIE again to the same form of PIE root?
with such a regularity?
MR. Iacomi, I am very curious about other opinions too.

take a look at "fio:" from PIE *bhu-iio: losing the "b" and the short
"u" you get that curious "hiu"= fiu .
I guess it is more here, not simple accidents...