[tied] Retroflex Series in PIE

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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)

Since some languages distinguish between final *-er
and *-r but Hittite doesn't it shows nothing about the
PIE form. Other aspects of "feather, fly, etc" need
to be explained.

> > and *gWertí- "act of consumption".
>
> What particular cognate set points to such a
> reconstruction?

It's not my reconstruction; I had *t. > *R. in this
word below.

borá: 'food' Gk; vora:re 'to devour' Lat

gerti 'to drink' Lith (not *girti), etc.


gWet.tós 'swallowed, noun'
gWet.t.ós
gWet.ós
gWeR.ós


Then in Greek o>u/gW_r etc; e>o there (and more).

In Latin somewhat the same; *vora: forms verb.

Since d. > r. and t. > R. after er. > r., and so on,
there is no r, > ir in Lithuanian and similar
languages (so *gWeR.tí- > gerti).






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