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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:18:44 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >> There is evidence for *k^a-, although it is admittedly rare.
> >
> >
> >Such as?
> >
>
> *k^ad- "fall", *k^as- "hare, grey", *k^ank- "branch", k^at-
> "fight".
>
Getting that fact into my "a's and plain k's are loaned" scheme is a
brain-teaser. I think this will work:
*k^a- is from loaned *c^a-.
The centum languages regularised *k/*c^ (trad. *k^) to *k, so loaned
*c^a got caught up in the purge and became *ka- (cf. French
[jus] /z^ü/ -> Sw. /s^ü/ "aspic", but Dan. /skü?/).
The satem languages regularised *k/*c^ (trad. *k^) to *c^, so c^ of
loaned *c^a fell together with that.
Result: centum *ka-, satem *sa-, which leads to the trad.
reconstruction *k^a-
Torsten