Re: [tied] *kw, gw > ?(was: Albanian (1))

26-01-04 22:01, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> There's been no discussion of the development of (uvular?) *kw- and
> *gw-. Is it deferred or is there a problem? For example, there may
> be too few examples - in Pokorny, I could only find *kwehp ~ *keuhp
> (Root #957) 'to smoke, boil, cook', which yields Albanian _kapitem_,
> glossed as 'atme schwer', and gjeth(e) 'leaf, twig' < *gwes (Root
> #725) 'branches, leaves'. We've also uncovered the extra, but
> challenged example, of *gwistis > _gisht_ (
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15602 ).

I'm going to tackle these clusters when I discuss the development of PIE *w.

Piotr