Re: [tied] Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

Dear Joao:

Oops! I should have mentioned that I was aware of it.

I did not because I suspect, for reasons I will not go into, that it is properly reconstructed as *gwow- rather than *gWow-; for *gwo:w-, 'excrement', I believe we are dealing with *gWoHw-.

Thanks for your input.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----

From: Joao S. Lopes

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:36 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

Perhaps

*gWeu-/gWou-/gWu-

turned inot

*gWeu/gWou-/gu-

and, through analogy to gu

geu-/gou-/gu-

But, how about gWoHu- "cow, bovine" ?

Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

While working on another problem, I accidentally noticed that, in Pokorny, there are NO roots that have the form labialized dorsal stop +V + w-.

For reasons I will not trouble the list with at this time, I believe it is possible that earlier roots of the form **gWew- and **kWew- were dissimilated to **gew- and *kew-.

It seems odd to me (if true) that no one has noticed this before; I have never read of it.

Does anyone know of a reconstructed IE root that has either the form *gWew- or *kWew-?

Of course, one can assume that they simply never existed; but would that not be strange?

As far as I know, every other consonantal phoneme of IE except *w has an attested C + V + w- form.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Patrick

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