Richard:
>Is this consistent with the reconstruction of the 'cattle' word as
>*pekun-, as Miguel proposes, if I understand hime right, at
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratica/message/762 ? *pekun- is
>perhaps an archaic form by PIE, but, if I understand correctly,
>formation of *pk^wo:n is also old history by then.
I can't agree that *peku was once a heteroclitic. I think it's the
other way around -- that the heteroclitic spread to non-heteroclitic
inanimates ending in any sonorant. The MIE version of *peku was
*p�keu (gen. pek�use), in my view, while that of the root *kwon-
was *kew�ne (gen. kewen�se). The two are not related.
I'm still thinking about the supposed accent on *u in the variant
*k�wo:n. Yet with *d�wo:-, it becomes a little more suspect as
evidence for Piotr's case. Is it possible that this is just a rule
affecting nouns starting in Cw- where C is any stop?
= gLeN
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