Re: [tied] Diphthong Distributions

On 2006-10-04 10:57, tgpedersen wrote:

> 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?

Perhaps **-Nt-, as suggested by Olsen/Rasmussen. You should like it :)

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

No, I mean *gWou- (you can check it in that PDF I sent you). It's true,
though, that the underlying root *gWeu- may have been more complex at
some pre-stage of PIE (I leave that possibility open in the article).

Piotr