Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

From: mkapovic@...
Message: 40091
Date: 2005-09-18

> --- 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.

Sorry, Richard, but I seem to have missed the point... :-/ Could you
elaborate?

Mate