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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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.
>

But they might be loaned by western IE from an IE language standing
at an earlier stage (where the ablaut vowel had stayed a/ä (> a), eg.
Krahe's Old European.

Torsten