Re: [tied] Re: about the wrong roots

From: alex
Message: 24131
Date: 2003-07-04

Richard Wordingham wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
> wrote:
>> Alex:
>>> For instance one can read for *k^uon/*k^un as follow:
>>
>> Please try to be careful when quoting stems or roots. With
>> *k^won-, the root is with asyllabic *w, not vowel *u, and
>> should end in "-" to show that it is a stem or root, not a
>> complete word on its own.
>
> Just to confuse matters:
>
> While we write asyllabic *w as w, the index at
> http://flaez.ch/cgi-bin/pok.pl writes v, and Pokorny writes u with a
> underline curved downwards, which in the on-line version is written
> u_.
>
> We at Cybalist normally indicate labialisation by W, the index at
> http://flaez.ch/cgi-bin/pok.pl and on-line Pokorny write w. The
> standard method when fonts allow is to use a superscript w, as in
> Piotr's elegantly formatted essays in the files.
>
> Richard.


aham. Abut such "Kleinigkeiten" Alex is still making big eyes not sure
which is the right one...

alex