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

> One should be careful with adverbs like "ever". The colouring by the

*K

> series was inconsistent. We have well-attested roots like *s)ker-,

*sek-

> or *legH-, which don't show any a-colouring. It may have been a
> capricious, incomplete sound change, like the lowering of Early

Modern

> English /u/, which took place in <butter> but not in <butcher>.
>

Or dialect mixture?


Torsten