[tied] Re: Bader's article on *-os(y)o

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

> >I have seen it now, and indeed it looks like a case of voicing
> >induced on final consonants by a following word boundary.
>
> No, it looks like what the author says it is: pretonic
> gemination of voiced stops, combined with stress shift
> caused by syllabic suffixes (and forward ejective
> assimilation):
>
> rád ~ radúni > rád ~ rattúni > rád ~ ratúni
> q.yd ~ q.üdýz > q.ýd ~ qyt.t.ýz > q.ýd ~ q.yt.ýz.

Oh. My, my, so the voicing is an original feature of the voiced
final consonants? That seems to disqualify it a bit as a parallel to
the proposed scenario for pre-PIE. Thank you for this clarification.

Jens