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

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > --- 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'?).

(Sergei has said, 'Yes.')

> Personally, I liked
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/8521 better.

I prefer to direct people to the start of a topic.

> I still stand by the shibbolethisation/depalatalistion idea,
> except I now added the idea of 'a-loans' obscuring the PIE stop
> picture.
>
> I couldn't find the *ek^wos reference?

I don't think you had an explanation for it at all. I couldn't find
an appropriate word for 'dead'.

Richard.