Re: [tied] Root of "marten," "sable"

From: C. Darwin Goranson
Message: 37866
Date: 2005-05-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> Perhaps Germanic was originally Satem? k^>s^>X>h ?
> I know Germanic is surely centum, k>h, no palatalization. But I just
sugesting a different view: if there was first a palatalization, and
later a shift s^>x (like Old Spanish>Modern Spanish).


On a similar note, what if there was a nasalized vowel in
Proto-Indo-Aryan-Balto-Slavic, like *khąt@..., with the "a" nasalized
and the @ as a schwa? The use of such things in Proto-Balto-Slavic,
Indo-Aryan and Tokharian (though the use in the last minght be due to
Indo-Aryan influx) seems to suggest it possibly existed. This could
have the two courses we know diverge out of it; khąt@... => š'atem => satem.

With the root *khąt@... in mind, it could have asisen from *khant@... -
the "n" might have nasalized the vowel. Is this possible?


And of course, anyone's open to comment on the original issue.