From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 30008
Date: 2004-01-25
----- Original Message -----
From: "elmeras2000" <jer@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 3:29 PM
Subject: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, [] but if I recall, Luwian "satemisation" was
> > discussed before and is inconclusive.
>
> It is accepted as operative before front vowels. Thus, the Luvian
> branch of Anatolian distinguishes palatals and plain velars before
> front vowels. A case in point would be zart- 'heart' vs. kis- 'to
> comb' from *k^erd- and *kes- respectively.
And with this we have the evidence that *k' > k in Hittite so there is no
much point in saying that *k' simply cannot become *k because it is very
unlikely.
Mate