--- andrew jarrette <
jarretteandrew@...>
wrote:
One simple mystery to me about the Celtic languages,
however, is the origin of their short /a/. If IE did
not have /a/, and the laryngeals were not common in
main syllables between consonants, what then is the
origin of Celtic /a/, which on the surface seems to be
quite common in Welsh and Irish?
o>a except by labial or rounded consonant
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