Re: [tied] Retroflex Series in PIE

On 2006-08-02 22:32, Sean Whalen wrote:

> I suspected the existence of a retroflex series of
> consonants in PIE because of positions where *er
> existed instead of expected *r, such as *peter "wing,
> feather"

Adx far as I can see, there's nothing particularly unexpected about the
behaviour of the "feather" word. We have neuter sg. *pótr. (Hitt.
pattar) and coll. *péto:r (Hitt. pittar) plus further more-or-less
predictable derivatives demonstrating that the word was a *-r/n- stem
like *wedr/n-.

> and *gWertí- "act of consumption".

What particular cognate set points to such a reconstruction?

Piotr