Re[2]: [tied] Greek labiovelars

At 9:01:21 PM on Tuesday, March 14, 2006, Anders R.
Joergensen wrote:

[...]

> In Irish we then find delabialization of *kW and *gW (> c
> and g). However, one can still tell the existence of
> earlier labialization on the rounding effect of a
> following /a/ (> /o/) and /i/ (> /u/), e.g. *gWaneti >
> gonaid, *gWediti > *gWidhith (raising) > guidid, etc.

Oh, excellent; a couple of Sean's examples had me wondering
about the possibility of /a/ > /o/ here, and now you've
saved me the time that I was going to spend looking into it
(and that I don't really have at the moment).

> As can be seen, quite a lot has happened since Jackson
> wrote his book.

I can't say that I'm particularly surprised. In fact I was
hoping for more up to date information, but I didn't expect
to get such a nice summary of the current position; many
thanks.

[...]

Brian