Re: [tied] PIE *akWa: 'water' (was: The role of analogy, alliterati

At 4:12:04 PM on Saturday, October 16, 2004, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

>>> ?? 'kW' is Cybalist notation for 'k^w'.

>> and I ever thought "kW" is the notation for labiovelar:-)

> You are correct, Alex. kW represents the 'labiovelar' in
> PIE, and generally a labialised velar.

Ah. I read 'k^w' as the labialized velar, taking '^' as
'exponentiation', rather than as the sequence of PIE *k^ and
*w.

Brian