Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:15:22 +0200, Grzegorz Jagodzinski
<grzegorj2000@...> wrote:

>So, there is
>virtually no base for Latin os, costa, Greek osteon < *H2o-. Because only
>o-forms are known

Not at all. There are also a-forms in Celtic (OIr. asil,
MIr. asna, We. asgwrn, etc.). We are dealing with an
acrostatic paradigm *h2óst[]-/*h2ést[]-.


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