Torsten:
> I still haven't heard your answer to whether *k and
> *h2 back pre-PIE *e to PIE *a, or they keep pre-PIE
> *a from being fronted to PIE *e.
For me, "pre-IE" is segmented into Old IE (post-
IndoTyrrhenian), Mid IE (post-QAR) and Late IE
(post-Syncope).
In MIE, there was no phoneme *q distinct from *k
because they were only allophones. So /k./ never
ever existed next to *e, only accented *a.
After Syncope in Late IE, *q would have become
phonemicized and only then would *q or *h2 start
lowering *e to /A/.
= gLeN
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