Re: [tied] ph3 > b PIE transformation?

On 2006-03-14 13:37, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> One additional question : Why Only h3 cause the voicing of p and
> not also *w or *o or *h2 etc...?

*h2 is not regarded as voiced. As for *w, *o, etc., voicing assimilation
is usually caused by segments which are _distinctively_ voiced, i.e. (in
most languages) stops and fricatives but not vowels, glides, liquids and
nasals.

> Could we imagine an intermediary phase "pb"? like a Celtic *apbon >
> *abon 'river' and also an intermediary stage *apb-lo for 'apple'
> too..

An imaginative mind can imagine anything, but what have these fruits of
imagination got to do with reality?

> This *pb could next explain why there is no lost of intervocalic b
> in Romanian abure (Alb avull) > Dacian *ápbula > PIE *h2ep-h3(nh2??)-
> lo

Don't let this idea possess you for the weeks to come :-) It's crazy,
but not crazy enough to yield new insights.

Piotr