Re: [tied] -i:r-/-u:r- after labiovelars in Sanskrit?

On 2006-05-26 14:13, Mate Kapović wrote:

> Please not that I'm not advocating the supposed changed, I'm just keeping
> my options open.
> The reflection -u:r- is otherwise found after a labial (cf. ú:rn.a:,
> pu:r-, pu:rn.ás etc.). I don't have the literature handy, but is there any
> fluctuation here? I mean, are there cases like -i:r- after normal labials?

I'm not sure if there are any; at any rate the preference for /u(:)r/
after /p/, /bH/ and /v/ is overwhelming. This doesn't mean, however,
that the occurrence of /u(:)r/ after velars is due to their lost labial
component. /u/ is not only [+round] but also [+back]. Velarity itself
may be responsible for retracting the epenthetic vowel, though the
assimilatory effect is weaker in this case and what we find is /i(:)/ ~
/u(:)/ fluctuation rather than anything approaching Neogrammarian
regularity.

Piotr