Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61205
Date: 2008-11-02

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>


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> On 2008-11-01 21:46, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
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>> Doesn't work either. Unstressed -we- or -wo- doesn't give -u-.
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Sorry Piotr
but it was Torsten who wrote that not me.

Arnaud

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> They do. For example, the root *swe(:)p- 'sleep' has the zero grade
> *sup-, as in *sup-no-; the zero grade of *h2weks- 'grow' is *h2uks- (as
> in Skt. uks.ant-); the zero grade of *weg^H- is *ug^H- (RV uha:na-).
> Lots of similar examples could be given, including, of course,
> *k^won-/*k^un-.
>
> Piotr
>
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