Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61250
Date: 2008-11-02

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar
Approximant


>
> On 2008-11-02 18:52, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
>> The word *bhuH-o that has the same structure as *k^uh2-on behaves the
>> same : short u.
>
> Not before a consonant. For example, he aorist *(e-)bHuHt is reflected
> as Ved. ábHu:t etc. (_with_ laryngeal lengthening).
>
> Piotr
>
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There's another word pneuma where I think there was a laryngeal *pneH1u or
*pneuH1
so the situation must be more complex that that.

Arnaud.
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