From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 41117
Date: 2005-10-07
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <magwich78@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE Ablaut
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The "counterexamples" mentioned by Collinge aren't
> > > > counterexamples. bharama:na- < *bheromh1no-, with */o/ in a
> > > > closed syllable.
> > >
> > > How is */o/ in a closed syllable there?
> >
> > It's syllable would be -rom(h1)-, which is closed.
>
> Oh, whoops! I should've known that.
>
> - Rob
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Patrick:
Sure, *h1 closes the syllable but it is really h1:, a _long_ closer, so that
it can surface as <a:>.
This is the classic case of a cake that someone wants to have (consonant)
and eat, too (long vowel).
Would you, by any chance, be interested in purchasing the Brooklyn Bridge?
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