From: alex
Message: 22222
Date: 2003-05-24
> It's much ado about nothing. A diphthong like /ai/ may easily beFrom the example of *gHaid- should we understand that PIE /ai/ became in
> realised as [aI] or [ae] if the glide is realised abit carelessly and
> the diphthongal movement fails to reach its target point, [raet]? The
> closest thing to [ae] in Proto-Germanic was *ai, which is white
> <caesar> [kaesar] was borrowed as *kaisar-; if there was any subtle
> difference between the two sounds, it simply didn't matter. <haedus>,
> however, is not the source of Germanic *gait-; it's related to it via
> ancestral *gHaid-, which underlies both words.
>
> Piotr