Re: Satem and desatemisation (was: Albanian (1))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> As another speaker of that language having channels on cable TV
> speaking languages that didn't, I sometimes wonder if not PIE
> paradigms might have alternating palatalised and non-palatalised
> allophones, eg. k^/k, from which the daughter languages

generalised.

Indeed, you were discussing this issue in the thread including
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/8360 . I don't think
you had a good explanation of the development *ek^wos 'horse',
however you might like it for Lithuanian plakti 'to strike,
chastise' (is that really 'to flog'?).

Richard.