Re: Satem and desatemisation (was: Albanian (1))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> > As another speaker of that language having channels on cable TV
> > speaking languages that didn't, I sometimes wonder if not PIE
> > paradigms might have alternating palatalised and non-palatalised
> > allophones, eg. k^/k, from which the daughter languages
> generalised.
>
> Indeed, you were discussing this issue in the thread including
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/8360 . I don't

think

> you had a good explanation of the development *ek^wos 'horse',
> however you might like it for Lithuanian plakti 'to strike,
> chastise' (is that really 'to flog'?).
>

Personally, I liked

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/8521

better. I still stand by the shibbolethisation/depalatalistion idea,
except I now added the idea of 'a-loans' obscuring the PIE stop
picture.

I couldn't find the *ek^wos reference?

Torsten