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

From: Sean Whalen
Message: 45686
Date: 2006-08-11

--- alexandru_mg3 <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)?
>
> So it would be *kWers-n/reh2 > PAlb. *c^wa:-r(r)a:
> that would
> completly explain also the Romanian form *cioara
> /c^wara/

I agree that a form like kYW existed for a short
time, but as far as I know this word just shows
regular o>oa before a, etc.


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