Re: Horses' Asses and the Indo-European Homeland

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60393
Date: 2008-09-27

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
>> Are there examples of a phoneme split closer to the one
>> of our original question, in which something like /etHo/,
>> phonetically [e.tHo], would become /etho/, phonetically
>> [et.ho]?
>
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The way I understand Winter's law is this
1. sequence e +dh > short e + d
2. sequence e +d > long e + d

Explanation
*d is from t? (glottalized)
The sequence 2 is e +t? > e + ?t > e? +t > e: +t

Arnaud