Re: [tied] Stop horsing around

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 13662
Date: 2002-05-08

Piotr:
>The long ans short subsystems need not be qualitatively parallel in all
>respects. They are independent [...]

Right. This is really just a matter of peripherality, the short subsystem
being less peripheral and more tightly packed than the long subsytem. Still,
shouldn't there be a bit of lowness to Indic /a/ or our Pre-IIr *a? It can't
just be mid-central schwa, can it? I mean, wouldn't that create an
unbalanced
system (like having [i], [u], [e] and [o] but no [a]). You mention "but
never
quite low" so I take it that there is indeed at least some lowness here.
Still, it's interesting and something to consider, as stubborn as I am to
admit it. Plus, being that *a is unaccented in *ec'was, it's of course very
possible for it to be pronounced as a mid-central schwa, regardless of the
pronunciation of accented *a.


>>Alright now. Considering for a moment that AbAd loaned its "horse" word
>>from a satem term *ec'was, where could *ekwo- originally be from?
>
>A good question. I wish I knew the answer :)

Alotta help _you_ are! >:) Is there any hint of a verb like **ok- or
something similar, though?


- love gLeN



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