Re: [tied] Re: about the wrong roots

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 17:51:58 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>But here all these changes request a front vowel as /e/, /i/, /j/

/j/ is not a vowel (at most a semivowel).

>for alowing that. Thus, this is why I wondered about PIE /*k^/and /*g^/ if
>they could have a kind of "apendices" which allowed theses changes. And
>this "appendices" should be just a kind of front wovel for palatalising
>since the /W/ was the labial one.Do you see there an another posiblity
>without the help of this kind of vowel ?

The symbols *k^, *g^, *g^h imply palatalization, just like *kW, *gW and
*gWh imply labialization. Labialization and palatilzation can occur
independently of the following vowel (PIE had *k^u and it had *kWi).


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