Re: [tied] Re: dorsals

Hope you had a great time.

I have to correct one of my examples. Skt. paras'u- shows that *pelek^u- belongs to the *k^ set. If so, Greek pelekkao: and pelekkon 'axe handle' < *pelek^wom show that *-k^w- developed exactly like *-kw-. The verb is also written with single -k-, but since regular phonological processes in Greek tend to preserve syllable weight, I assume that *-kk- is normal and *-k- is analogical to pelekus.

Piotr

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:07 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: dorsals

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 01:31:24 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote: >Subject: Re: [tied] PIE dorsals > >Miguel wrote: > >> In Greek, *k^w > pp/tt, *kw > k and *kW > p/t. > >We seem to have reached some kind of consensus, but here let me disagree once again. Do you know any examples of *-k^w- > Greek -tt-? I can’t think of any. But some dialects have ikkos rather than hippos, which shows that *-k^w- and *-kw- did not necessarily contrast in Greek. I’m sure you know that *kw- could give *k word-initially (as in kapnos ‘smoke’), but the medial reflex is -kk-: > >*peleku-a-o: ‘cut with an axe’ > pelekkao: > >*laku-os ‘pond’ > lakkos I'm sure you're right. I must have had <ikkos> in the back of my mind when I wrote "pp/tt", but I made the mistake of not checking. I'm just back from a party, so I won't make the mistake of checking it now, either. Jutro...