Re: [tied] Diphthong Distributions

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

>
> On 2006-10-04 06:35, etherman23 wrote:
>
> > I was looking at some PIE roots today and noticed some interesting
> > distributions of diphthongs.
> >
> > 1) Roots in *tei- are nonexistent
>
> Isn't this an accidental gap? There are several roots in *dei- and
> *dHei-, and it remains to be proved that in *(s)tei- roots with
> s-mobile the s-forms are older.

Tocharian has a lot of affrication of t's. If *st was once an
independent phoneme and not a composition with *t, it doesn't
have to follow *t to become *sts or *stj vel sim.. The problem is:
if 2sg *-si is from *-ti, where's 3g *-ti from?

> > 4) Roots in *gW(H)eu-/*kWeu-/k'weu- are nonexistent
>
> How about the 'cow' word?

I think you mean *gWogW-?


Torsten