Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:16:23 -0500, Patrick Ryan
<proto-language@...> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miguel Carrasquer<mailto:mcv@...>
> I don't doubt that for a minute. But it's wrong: *dhe-,
> *sta-, and *do- cannot give Vedic dhi-, sthi- and di-.
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> What you are not taking into consideration is that *dhe-, *sta-, and *do- are not possible for Indo-Iranian.
>
> Therefore, your assertion is meaningless.
>
> All PIE *e, *a, and *o became <a> in Indo-Iranian.
>

Exactly. Not /i/.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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