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.

It would, but in case of English, we have plenty of data. In case of
pre-IE, we have almost nothing. Lexical diffusion is real all right in
some cases, but I think it's not very sound methodologically to operate
with it as Glenn ignorantly does.

Mate