Re: [tied] kentum and satem

Thank you, Piotr. It gets clearer to me.
Could you please give the complete list of IE branches where *k and *kW fall
together?
Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Tocharian ... What else?

Alexander

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] kentum and satem


> The falling together of *k and *kW can occur outside the Satem group as
well
> (Tocharian is a good example) and therefore cannot be regarded as a
> distinctly Satem feature. Nor does the common-or-garden variety of
> positional palatalisation (before front vowels) count as Satem, and I
> believe what we have in Phrygian is basically just that.
>
> Piotr
>