Re: [tied] Delabialisation in Germanic

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> I have collected some examples of *kW, *gW and *gWH
> losing their
> labiality when adjacent to an *o in the ancestor of
> Germanic (a similar
> loss next to an *u is well-known and less
> interesting). They include
> such items as *gWolbHo- > *kalBa-, *dHogWHo- >
> *DaGa-, *kW�l(h1)so- >
> *xalsa-. It has struck me that the *o in all these
> cases seems to be
> "Rasmussenian", i.e. an element of infixal origin.

This may not have anything to do with the change,
but did you notice that each example has an aspirated
stop or (h1/2/3) in it as well as *o directly after
the (un)rounded velar?





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