Re: Horses' Asses and the Indo-European Homeland

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"

<liberty@...> wrote:

>
> > My question to the list in general is this: during the
> > evolution of any language has a single phoneme ever been
> > seen to split into two or more; merge yes, but split?
>
> I suppose you mean one segmental unit becoming a sequence
> of two segmental units ?

Yes.

> What about some -ww- becoming -gw- in Germanic ?

Isn't 'ww' a sequence of two?

> or dwo > er-ku in Armenian basically the w seems to have
> split in -k-u-

Maybe so. I'm not familiar with the path supposed for
'erku'.

David