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

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:50:50 -0500, Patrick Ryan
<proto-language@...> wrote:

>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-

It seems to me rather crucial to go into it. The word is
usually reconstructed as *gWow-, and I see no reason to
posit *gwow- instead.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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