From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40553
Date: 2005-09-24
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] *kW- "?"
> Grzegorz Jagodzinski wrote:
<snip>
> degemination with compensatory lengthening would have produced *ka~ni: >
> *ka:ni:, further transformations within Germanic yielding secondarily
> extended stems like *xo:n-jo:n- (ON hœna) etc.
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Patrick:
Could you please tell me what the tilde (~) indicates above?
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