Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> Mate on my exception to Vowel Shift:
> > This doesn't sound very serious. Do you honestly
> > believe this "explanation" is acceptable?
> > It's like finding an unchanged IE *o instead of
> > _a_ in Germanic, [...]
>
> Boy, you aren't kidding. It would be as silly
> as finding an unchanged *t in Germanic in the word
> *okto:.

I think English _put_ (as opposed to the regular development _putt_,
cf. _but_) would be a better analogy.

Richard.