Re: Russian v(o), s(o) & k(o) (was: IE Thematic Vowel Rule)

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> > Sounds exactly like PIE ablaut. I pointed out to my instructor
> that
> > the preposition seemed to gain what the pronoun lost (obo mné, o
> > tebyé), and he hadn't even noticed. The point here is that there
> is a
> > sequence of syllables with half-dead vowels, jers, and some die,
> and
> > some are resuscitated, according to some rule. It reminds me of
> > Skt. imperf.
> >
> > ábharam
> > ábhar
> > ábhar
> >
> > or Latin
> >
> > fero:
> > fers
> > fert
> >
> > which I'm told, but don't believe, are peripheral phenomena:
> something
> > disappears before unvoiced which survives before nasal.
>
> I think you would profit even more from something that could

remind

> you of the Sanskrit imperfect as it is:
>
> ábharam
> ábharas
> ábharat
>

True. Root aorist would be better.

ákaram
ákar
ákar


Torsten