Re: [tied] Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:23:48 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>The regular reflex of *g^w in Albanian is <z> via *dz^ < *dzw (as
>opposed to <dh> or <d> from *g^ alone), so both the metathesis and the
>voicing must be old. I'm not sure what caused the voicing -- the
>material illustrating this change is very scanty -- but since *s is
>reflected as voiced <gj> from older *z^ before a stressed vowel in
>Albanian (as opposed to <sh> in unstressed syllables, cf. shtatë <
>*septm.'-t-a: but gjashtë < *sék^s-t-a:), I think it's just possible
>that intervocalic *k^ produced a voiced reflex before a stressed vowel,
>in which case the sequence of changes would have been:
>
>*wik^- > *w(i)g^- > *wdz- > *dzw- > *dz^- > z-
>
>This is strangely reminiscent of Latin vi:ginti:, with /g/ from *k^.

I'm reading Melchert's Anatolian Historical Phonology, and it seems that in
Proto-Anatolian, *kW in internal position almost always developed to *gW
(whereas other consonants were lenited only under special circumstances).
In view of Albanian *wik^ > *wts > *tsw > *dzw, and the voiced (or at least
voicing) character of PIE *h3 (*xW > *GW ?), it may seem that labialization
can induce voicing of the labialized segment. But I'm not aware of any
other examples. Anyone?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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