Re: Daimo:n 'Divider' <-> Bog 'Divider' too?

> > The vowel /e/, being --almost-- the only vowel in the PIE
> > phonological
> > inventory, is almost certainly derived from a merger of different
> > vowels in pre-PIE.
> >
>
> Why such a drastical reduction (all vowels > a single one)? Not
> to can express what you could previously expressed?
>
> In the opposite direction: there are 'Others' saying exactly the
> contrary : the oldest stage of PRE-PIE was one with no vowels.
>
> This supposition seems more logical: if there was a single vowel
> at one stage it cannot served for any differentiation.
>
> So for this reason is more logical to suppose, that this vowel is
> derived from an initial stage : where it was only a rithmic
> segmentation of different consonantic clusters (ex: C^C^C^, C^C^CC^
> etc...).

Dirk Boutkan: On the etymology of Dutch 'zijpe'
after proposing that that word is a loan from Berber,
"
In most Berber dialects originally short vowels have become schwa,
while the long vowels were abbreviated.
"


Torsten