From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52821
Date: 2008-02-12
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] *a/*a: ablaut
> On 2008-02-12 15:46, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > Regardless of how they are analyzed into segments, would you agree that
> > *wa:g^-, *gla:dhu-, and *wa:s- came into PIE with long vowels in place?
>
> Yes, in the sense that long *a: reflects an original pre-PIE vowel (not
> a vowel + laryngeal sequence). Whether the vowel was originally long or
> became long between pre-PIE and PIE is an open question.
>
> Piotr
***
Excellent!
You hinted once, I think, that there were processes you had in mind that
could have effected a lengthening of the vowel during the passage from
pre-PIE to PIE.
Let us assume that a given *a: in PIE was pre-PIE *a. Could you give me an
idea of what process could lengthen it? - vrdhi will, of course, not be
supremely convincing.
Patrick