Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels


> Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > With *H2owi-s, I do not think it should be reconstructed with a
> > 'laryngeal'.
> > I believe it is best analyzed as a reduplicated *wo, 'curl': *wówo-
> > becomes
> > *wéu-, 'all curls' + "*ye-, '-like' = *wowéi-, 'all curly'; at this
> > point,
> > the avoidance of the same phone in subsequent syllables rule came into
> > effect, and the the initial *w as metathesized: *ówwi- became *ówi-
> > (*ma:-ma: becomes *á:mma:).
>
> Funny. This is one of those words in which the laryngeal is directly
> attested by courtesy of the Anatolian languages -- Luwian h-, Lycian x-.
> The latter reflex, by the way, leaves little doubt that the PIE sound
> was *h2.
>
> Piotr

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Patrick:

Might it be possible that these Anatolian responses are to be likened to
Greek h- for consonantal w-?

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