palatal PIE *k^ etc

> Nevertheless, in Slavic we only have the satemised forms (also in
> reflexes of *k^lou-, *k^luHs-, etc.), while some of the Baltic

reflexes

> have reverted to /k/ (for whatever reason). This means that the
> palatalisation was still reversible in Proto-BSl times.
>

If indeed the *k^ etc was palatal in PIE and not a phoneme with two
allophones, /k^/ and /k/, before front vowels and elsewhere,
respectively, which was later generalised on the basis of the /k^/ etc
allophone in satem and on the basis of /k/ etc allophone in kentum
languages. But we've been there before.


Torsten