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

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:33:49 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> >> Sanskrit is not western IE.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Please elucidate.
>>
>> Skt. ke:kara, kampate:, kapat.i:, kapr.th-, carkarti.
>>
>
>Examples of plain *k in Sanskrit, I surmise.

Of *ka-, in fact.

>There are two ways open
>for me here:
>
>1) to claim that these were not loans from Old European, but a third
>language, accessible from both Old European and Sanskrit, eg at its
>earliest (or at least nearest) site at the Maeotic Sea. At least
>*kand- has a correspondent in Semitic, according to Møller, and could
>therefore originate in the early NE Caucasian language John told us
>about.
>
>2) to point out that according to Krahe, Old European stretches all
>the way to the Caucasus, well within range of Sanskrit.

3) *k is an inherited PIE phoneme, reflexes of which are present in every
branch of PIE and in all semantic fields. It may not be as frequent as
*k^, but it's doubtlessly present in derivational morphology (more common
there than *k^ in fact) such as the diminutive and adjectival affix
*-(i)ko-.


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