Re: Slavic *-je/o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> > Is it
> > unthinkable that the contrast between PIE *oW and *aW became
> > quantitative in PBSl., the diphthongs becoming respectively *aW and
> > *a:W, the latter merging with the reflex of *oWH > *aWH > *a:W?

(Even if

> > the qualitative contrast between short *a and *o was otherwise
> > maintained at least until the operation of Winter's Law.)
>
> In case anoyone points out the obvious to me: I realise that this
> doesn't work for initial *h2aW-, cf. Gk. aulós, auló:n : Lith.

au~las,

> auly~s. But are there any counterexamples for *a not motivated by a
> word-initial laryngeal?

How about Gk. kámpto: 'bend', Lith. kam~pas 'corner', Goth.
hamfs 'mutilated'?

Sergei