Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

On Pon, rujan 26, 2005 1:20 pm, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

> Grzegorz Jagodzinski wrote:
>
>> Not dialectal. Forms with *k and *H exist side by side, like in Latin os
>> /
>> costa or Slavic koza / azIno.
>
> It remains to be proved that <koza> and <azIno> are in fact related and
> not merely similar. The long vowel in <azIno> is consistent with
> Winter's pre-media learning (and so with the reconstruction *h2ag^ino- =
> adjective of material from *h2ag^os, cf. Skt. aja-, ajina-), while the
> short *o of <koza> suggests *g^H (or a non-inherited word).

Yeah, but there are like 10 different theories on how Winter's law really
works so one cannot exclude *g' for _koza_ as well...

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