Re: Finnish KASKA

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 53986
Date: 2008-02-22

Piotr, or someone like Brian with good Gaelic references, will have to
answer that one.


Patrick


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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 5:50 AM
Subject: Re:Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA


> I cannot accept **du as a root.
>
> It is not monosyllabic *CV because *u is a vocalic allophone of a
> consonant:
> *w.
>
> It could be the zero-grade of *déw but you are not asserting that, are
> you?
>
> Patrick
>
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>
> What is the standard explanation of
> Irish daw ?
>
> Arnaud
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