Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

On 2006-05-26 08:24, Mate Kapović wrote:

> On Sri, svibanj 24, 2006 9:15 pm, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:
>> There is more similarity in the development of Balto-Slavic and
>> Indo-Iranian (where we also have the early and complete merger of the *k
>> and *kW series and the RUKI rule), while the "satellite" languages,
>> Armenian and Albanian, show various idiosyncratic developments.
>
> The merger of the *k and *kW does not really some like a real "satem"
> change, since it does not happen in Arm. and Alb. apparently.

I didn't claim is was "pan-Satem".

> What about Sanskrit -i(:)r-/-u(:)r- developments, which were connected
> with PIE labiovelars (-u(:)r- comes supposedly not only after the labials
> but after PIE labiovelars as well)?

This is controversial. The /i/ development may also occur after
labiovelars, as in Skt. giri- 'mountain'. In my opinion the outcome
after k, g, gH (of whatever origin) was variable and may have depended
on other factors as well, e.g. the influence of vowel of the next
syllable (cf. <gurú-> 'heavy'). I see no ground for believing that
reflexes of *k and *kW are systematically distinguished in this way.

Piotr