Re: [tied] Laryngeals revisited

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:

> Yet /kW/ did affect the vowel-quality in at least some words,
> including *nekWt-s 'night', given Greek nux, nuktos and Latin nox,
> noctis. Words such as *wekWs/*wokWs 'word, voice' may have also

been

> affected.

No, the genitive of *nókWt-s is *nékWt-s (Hitt. nekuz mehur 'time of
night'); and there is *wékW-os in Gk. épos, Skt. vácas. The nom.
*wó:kW-s (with gen. *wekW-ós) of the root noun is just like *pó:ds
(gen. *ped-ós, replacing *péd-s). These vowels are independent of the
consonantal environment.

Jens