Re: [tied] Re: PIE voiceless aspirates

From: glen gordon
Message: 41922
Date: 2005-11-08

Patrick:
> So far as I can see, there could be no _second_
> palatalization because, in Old Indian, all *V had
> become <a>, which could not palatalize.

Since *woidos becomes /veda/ (the thing that you're
currently lacking) this absolute assertion is
obviously not correct.


> Fine. PIE *k^he becames <S> in Old Indian.

Only in your model, as David has said. And that
does make it irrelevant.


= gLeN




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