From: tgpedersen
Message: 64989
Date: 2009-09-05
>'Contains', you mean. Okay; of course. I was thinking, for some reason, of open and closed *syllable*. Sorry. But, still, *jen,-/*in,- is a regular IE ablaut alternation.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "caotope" <johnvertical@> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>>>>> (The correspondence is also non-trivial so the point of
> >>>>>> divergence needs to be pre-PU or pre-PIE anyway.)
>
> >>>>> I don't understand the last sentence.
>
> >>>> Uralic *ä and IE *ei/*i: cannot be loaned from a common form.
>
> >>> *jän,- and *in,- can.
>
> >> No. One is glide+open vowel, the other a close vowel.
>
> > Which one is glide plus open vowel and which one is a close
> > vowel?
>
> Obviously *jän,- is glide plus open vowel and *in,- is a close
> vowel.
>