Re: [tied] What the Beaver Teaches Us about IE Analysis

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 15351
Date: 2002-09-10

Another self-correction [sigh]. "Millennium", of course, not "century". Type in haste, repent at leisure.
 
Piotr
 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] What the Beaver Teaches Us about IE Analysis

... /gW/ and /kW/ existed as phonemes distinct from /b/ and /p/ and never confused with them at the time of the Linear B inscriptions (mid to late 13th century BC). For example, Classical <basileus> was spelt <qa-si-re-u> /gWasileus/. The change took place between that time and Homer's, not a thousand years before him. The very end of the second century BC of the very beginning of the first.