Re: [tied] The Return of the Knight Who Says "Një"

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:31:04 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>It's interesting that the root *omlos 'bitter' derives, according to
>N. Jokl, also in Dacian <amalusta>, where we have one testimony that
>as Illyrian, as Dacian treat PIE short stressed *o as /a/ (cf.
>Illyrian river name Plav < *pleu- 'to flow', also present today in
>Monte Negro as horonym Plav).

In fact, most IE languages treat *o as /a/ (Anatolian, Germanic, Baltic,
Slavic, Albanian, Indo-Iranian). Only Celtic, Italic, Greek, Phrygian (?),
Armenian and Tocharian treat */a/ and */o/ differently.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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