Re[2]: [tied] Draw, correction

At 12:46:17 PM on Friday, October 24, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:

> You're right, so I can't use that to time *-a:- > *-o:-
> which must then have taken place independently and
> earlier; it's common Germanic AFAIK?

Yes, though Ringe at least thinks that it was very late.
(He has *o > *a and *o: > *a:, followed later by rounding
of *a: to *o, the last change being very late, possibly even
spreading by contact as PGmc. was breaking up.)

Brian