Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:59:34 -0000, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
>wrote:
>
>> I mean labialized (h3 (= xW, hW), kW, gW, ghW, sW), not
>> labial (m, w, p, b(h)). The line is a bit hard to draw
>> sometimes. For instance, I believe that *w can be both
>> things: original **w, or labialized **nW/**mW > *w.
>
>I don't think *h3 is excluded from morphemes containing a labiovelar.
>*gWerh3- is one of the most securely reconstructed PIE roots.

I haven't quite worked out the details of the labialization
dissimilation, but it has to do with the effects of a
pre-PIE *u(:) on adjacent consonants. It looks to me as if
either the following consonant was labialized (**mat-nút-a:s

> *meh2nétWos > *meh1nésos; **nú:g-t- > *nókWt-), or the

preceding (as in this case: **gúrxw- > *gWérh3-), but rarely
both. It's not a rule against the co-occurrence of
labialized consonants in roots in general.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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