Re: [tied] Re: Schleicher's Tale

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:47:29 +0000, Rob <magwich78@...> wrote:

>I think I remember reading somewhere that PIE /o/ > Tocharian /a/.
>But I could be mistaken.

PIE /o/ -> Toch /e/

>I was under the impression that Pre-PIE /xWa/ > /o/ everywhere,
>and /xa/ > /a/ everywhere; in other words, that they were immune to
>e/o variations. Is this wrong?

Only (short) /e/ is coloured by /h2/ and /h3/.

>Digression: Hittite preserves two laryngeals, which Piotr Gasiorowski
>says were velar ('h') and uvular ('hh') fricatives, respectively.
>Could it be that Hittite 'h' /x/ < 'h2' /x/, and 'hh' /Q/ < 'h3' /xW/?

Generally, *h2 and *h3 merged in Hittite (and we cannot tell whether there
is /a/- or /o/-colouring either).

>> Well, I think *k^é:rd (Arm. sirt).
>
>Ah, so you think the long /e/ was 'original' and not due to
>compensatory lengthening by omission of the word-final stop?

Yes, but that's probably just me (I take it to be **kí:rd, **ki:rdás ->
*k^é:r(d), *k^r.dés).

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