Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39279
Date: 2005-07-17

 
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Subject: 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-.
>
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>  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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Patrick:
 
Did I say anything about PIE *i and *u?
 
If so, where was it?
 
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