Re: [tied] kentum and satem

From: alex
Message: 22121
Date: 2003-05-22

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> The falling together of *k and *kW can occur outside the Satem group
> as well (Tocharian is a good example) and therefore cannot be
> regarded as a distinctly Satem feature. Nor does the common-or-garden
> variety of positional palatalisation (before front vowels) count as
> Satem, and I believe what we have in Phrygian is basically just that.
>
> Piotr


I guess you made a good point here. Any examples of Thracian words where
_we know_ what the Thracian word meant and which shows a true satem
character ? I could not find any . You eventually?

alex