Re: [tied] *ekwos and friends

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>

Might *kw > kW be relevant? I heard it happens?

Torsten