The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

From: tgpedersen
Message: 30255
Date: 2004-01-29

> At least in the examples of *ka- I was looking at yesterday, /a/ is
fully
> capable of disappearing itself in zero-grade forms [confirming
that /a/ in
> these cases is what would otherwise have been /e/ if not coloured
by *k

or that these roots were borrowed from another IE language, in which
the ablaut vowel alternated |a, nothing|

].

Torsten