Re: [tied] Exampaeus

-----Original Message-----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:gpiotr@...]
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 7:28 PM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tied] Exampaeus

However, if Steppe Iranian *a became a fairly close vowel in metrically weak positions (elsewhere I argued that it was substituted with Slavic *U rather than *o in loanwords), Greek /o/ makes sense as the best approximation.

 

Piotr

 

I was thinking of shifting back rather than raising (just missed the latter possibility). If *a was raised to something like [schwa], Greek /o/ indeed would be the best fit.

 

Sergei