Re: [tied] Albanian chronology [was: something else]

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 28128
Date: 2003-12-08

08-12-03 09:32, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Is that raising of /e/ before N(C) or what Beekes calls "*e > i, condition
> unknown" (as in nip, vit)?

Perhaps neither. There was no rasing in *penkWe. I suppose an early
nasalised *e~ (before *s) was raised when there was still an oral vowel
plus a nasal before stops and affricates. One would need more
examples to reconstruct the details.

Piotr