Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:36:50 +0100, Mate Kapovi? <mkapovic@...> wrote:

>As I sadi, a-colouring and uvularity can be pre-IE and that aside I think
>there was no real phoneme *a in PIE so the words reconstructed with "PIE"
>*ka are not very convincing. All these words are mostly expressive, younger,
>not widely spread, loaned etc. So a-colouring is not a really strong
>argument.

If I limit myself to words starting with *ka- in Pokorny, I see nothing
expressive, young, not widely spread or loaned about *kaiko- "blind",
*kailo- "whole", *kal(no) "hard (skin)", *kamp- "bend", *kan- "sing",
*kand- "white", *kantHo- "edge", *kap- "take", *kapro "male animal", *kar-
"chide", *kar&- "praise", *kars- "scratch", *kat- "plait, chain", *kaul-
"hollow". And that's only scratching the surface.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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