Re: Cow

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Or rather, the PIE root was really *NgWou, *NgWu- and the tradtional
> PIE phonemes b, d, g^, g, gW are not glottalized as G/I want, but
> prenasalized: Mb, Nd, Ng^, N,g, N,gW.

Glottalised is rather a vague term. In the preglottalised series it's
the back consonant which is most likely to be omitted, as opposed to
the ejective series, where it's the labial that is most likely to be
missing. In a prenasalised series, it's the labial that's most likely
to be missing.

Richard.