[tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal sham)

From: elmeras2000
Message: 31219
Date: 2004-02-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

[JER, on *gWiH3wó-s :]
> I wouldn't know what a suffix *-wo-
> > would be doing here.
>
> Nor would I, and I agree that the *w is most likely a product of
> phonetic development. The "phonetic interference" looks very much
like
> metathesis: *-ROh3o- > *-Rh3Oo- > *-R.h3wo-.

I find the agreement very pleasant. And if you like metathesis so
much you can have it here, but then it's a different kind from the
one you are defending for /polló-/. I actually see very little
change, especially as I do not know exactly what the -O- sounded
like. I am also surprised to see that you throw around full phonemes
and apparently exclude phonetic changes of subphonemic status.

Jens