From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 31142
Date: 2004-02-17
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal
sham)
> Well, I mean something different: the pre-form of *pleh1-mn. (as in Gk.
> ple:ma) produced *polh1-n�- instead of *ploh1-n�- because the expected
> sequence *plRh1-C- was reshuffled to *pRl-C- (with the regular elimination
> of the laryngeal) _after_ the period of stress shifts but before the full
> vocalisation of *R. The metathesis was motivated by purely phonetic
factors,
> more or less like *blUxa > blxa > pchl/a 'flea' in Polish.
P.S. Perhaps the following example provides a parallel:
*gWl�h1-mn. (Gk. bl�:ma) --> *gWoln�h2 (Att. boul�:, Dor. bo:l�:)
Piotr