[tied] Re: kentum/satem: why Lithuanian kg before e/i

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-08-10 22:26, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > I am aware that plain velars didn't palatalized in Albanian, but,

it

> > seems that I have understood your that labiovelars underwent
> > palataization, so I was a little bit surprised.
>
> What I meant was that the labiovelars underwent palatalisation

_before

> front vowels_ (*kW > *c^(W) > s, *g(H)W > *3^(W) > z), while plain
> velars probably didn't (though the evidence is not very strong).
>
> Piotr
>

Piotr, please to tell me why you kept (W) in c^(W)/g^(W) ?
Do you suspect that W survived for a while (...as w)?

So it would be *kWers-n/reh2 > PAlb. *c^wa:-r(r)a: that would
completly explain also the Romanian form *cioara /c^wara/

Thanks,
Marius