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

> At least in the examples of *ka- I was looking at yesterday, /a/ is

fully

> capable of disappearing itself in zero-grade forms [confirming

that /a/ in

> these cases is what would otherwise have been /e/ if not coloured

by *k

or that these roots were borrowed from another IE language, in which
the ablaut vowel alternated |a, nothing|

].

Torsten