Re: [tied] Re: dorsals

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 01:31:24 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>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.

I can't find any (-tt- is the Attic for -ss-, a different matter
altogether). I must've meant "kk" (as in <ikkos>).

>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

Correction (*pelek^u-) noted, and indeed there seems to be no
distinction medially.

Initially, *ku (*qu) seems to prefer a treatment as Grk. <kF->
(kapnos, kalpe:, kolpos, karpos...), while *k^u (*ku) is treated the
same as the labiovelar *kw (i.e. p-, t-, k-, depending on the
following vowel).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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