On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:29:37 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
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gpiotr@...> wrote:
>Here is a modest phonological proposal concerning PIE dorsals:
Yes, that would seem to work.
I miss some additional argumentation as to why *h2 would necessarily
have to be uvular ([+low]). Isn't it conceivable that it was velar
[x], or even, god help us, that both [x] and [X] existed (*h2a and
*h2b ?).
I also reserve the right to have pre-PIE **q^ (> *k^) and **qw (>
*kw), for reasons of symmetry and because of two cute self-discovered
Nostratic etymologies which I'm reluctant to let go of (PIE *g^hesr-
"hand", PSem *3as'r- "10", PKartv. *qe(l)- (Svan pl. qäl-är-) "hand,
arm"; and PIE *g^en(d)h1u- "chin, jaw, cheek", PKartv. *Ga(:)c'.w-
"cheek", *Ga(n)c^.- "jaw"), both with (palato-)velars in PIE for the
expected uvular.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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