Re: [tied] PIE *ts ?

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:42:04 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>> [MCV] But Toch. tkam. and possibly Hitt. tekan show that this *ts was
>> definitely post-PIE.
>
>Contrariwise, I think Hittite ezta or ezzatteni (*ezteni) < *h1ed-t.. show it to be PIE.

Yes, that's what I said. tt > tst is PIE. tk/dhgh > kts/gdz (or
whatever) is _not_. "This *ts" was a reference to the one in "earth",
not the one in "eats".

>For all we know, /tk-/ may even be the normal development of *dzg^H- in Tocharian A. An isolated example can't prove or disprove anything.

And khth- the normal development of *dzg^h in Greek? I don't think
so.

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