Re: [tied] Re: Ie. *laywos/leh2iwos (was: ka and k^a)

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:25:12 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>>
>> The full grade of the root is unremarkable if the word
>> contains etymological */a/, since the zero grade of */a/ is
>> */a/, as in *nas- obl. *nas-; *sal- obl. *sal-, etc. Since
>> these are acrostatic formations, we would expect Ablaut
>> *oN/*eN (*noNs-, obl. *neNs-), and apparently the reflexes
>> of *oN and *eN merged, Old-Polish-style, as **/aN/ (> */a/).
>>
>
>If you proposed instead *eN -> *aN -> *a, *oN -> *o, you could
>account for a/o ablaut.

What a/o Ablaut?

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