From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42108
Date: 2005-11-15
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:55 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: IIr 2nd Palatalisation
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> Well, let us see how this goes.
>
> ASSUMPTIONS
<snip>
I am acknowledging the second palatalization in Old Indian.
I have found examples under *gWhen- that cannot be reasonably explained by
my hypotheses.
I thought it unlikely that, having gone through a radical vowel reduction
once before, after which the Ablaut-vowel developed into *e and *o, that Old
Indian would be subjected to a similar radical vowel reduction, <e> and <o>
becoming <a>. But, it appears to be the only reasonable explanation.
Presumably, Dravidian influence.
Thank you for indulging me, Richard.