Piotr:
>"_Must_ have been"? Why not something like the system we normally find in
>Indic, where <a:> is an open vowel but short <a> is phonetically a schwa?
Nifty. Is Indic <a> pronounced as schwa in all positions or just most?
If there is no [a] in contrast with [a:], how is the length maintained?
Alright now. Considering for a moment that AbAd loaned its "horse" word from
a satem term *ec'was, where could *ekwo- originally be from? I don't like
unetymologized words. Could there be some verb root **ok- "to run(?)" that
became lengthened to produce *o:ku- "quick" on the one hand but *ekwos on
the other (via an earlier **?kwos with accent on the last syllable)?
- love gLeN
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