Re: [tied] Early PAlb Depalatisations of k', g' > k, g

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>

wrote:

>
> > The satemisation of *k^, g^
> > and *g^H was blocked or cancelled before _consonantal_ liquids and
> > nasals, but not before their syllabic variants. In *smek^ru- there
> was
> > no syllabic *r. in PIE, and so we have /k/ in <mjekër>. From
> *g^Hr.zdo-
> > 'cereal, barley', on the other hand, we get <drithë>.
>
> Is it really possibly to get Gk. kri^ and kri:thé: out of something
> with a syllabic r?
>
> Jens

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Do you mean that Greek syllabic /r./ yields always <ar> not mater of
environment, like *g'hr.i-s > kharis 'grace, favor' or in *kWet(w)r. -
tetra- 'four' or *kWt(w)r.- tra- in trapezium etc.

Also, do you mean that depalatisatio took place in Proto-Albanian
before syllabic variants of liquids and nasals?

Konushevci