Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

> And this later palatalization occurs just accidentally in the 'dog' and
> 'horse' word among others? Oh come oooon...
>
> >The second possibility (and I
> > just love this one cuz it's so possible and yet so
> > trippy) is that _part_ of the Anatolian dialect
> > area lied within the satem area, the part that later
> > became "Luwian".
>
> But you seem to be forgeting that the 'regular' satem-languages (except
> for Albanian and Armenian in front of front vowels) all show *k = *kW.
> That's why your theory works with them. But Luwian has not *k = *kW

(like

> satem) nor *k' = *k (like centum). That's why your theory does *not*

work

> with Luwian.

So the anomalous languages are Albanian, Luwian and Aremenian, all on
the southern fringe of the satem area, in which the merger *kW > *k
did not occur immediately.

Richard.