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

On 2006-08-11 16:47, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> 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)?

As lip-rounding accompanying the affricate. It must have remained for a
while, judging from the merger of palatalised labiovelars with the
sequences *k^w and *g^(H)w- > *c'w-, *3'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/

Not impossible, see

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/35524

Piotr