Re: [tied] *ekwos and friends

No, satemisation sometimes fails in Slavic, but in order to get from
*ek^wo- to <kos'-> you'd have to propose the following ARBITRARY
developments:

(1) satemisation fails and we get *ekv- rather than *esv-
(2) initial e- is dropped (it doesn't, normally)
(3) *-v- dissapears (it doesn't, normally)
(4) -os'- (of what origin?) is added to enlarge *k- (all that
remains!) into kos'-

With so much freedom you could convert anything into anything else.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:


> *****GK: Yahoo cut out as my message was going out. So
> I'll briefly repeat it and ask for your indulgence. My
> question: Are you saying that "satemization" works
> universally and absolutely in languages affected by
> it, and that there are no examples in these languages
> of words which escaped the process?****