Re: [tied] English /p/ in "up" and "open"

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> > There is no such thing as a CVCVC root nor a yet CVC-VC root.
> Some few roots are CV (e.g. *me) but most (really all) others are
> CVC.
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> > I already have glasses.
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> > Perhaps you should consider obtaining a thinking cap?
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> CVC-VC means
> a root (CVC)
> with a suffix (-VC)
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> cf PIE *up-er > Proto-Celtic *wer-.
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> Torsten
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> Did you not assert that *per- was derived from *(a/u)per-?
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Make it VC-VC then.


Torsten