Syllabic (was: Etymology of Rome - h1rh1-em-/h1rh1-o:m-)

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> What happened in the sequence *n.h2V in Indo-Iranian
> was as follows:
>
> (1) The laryngeal was lost, which resulted in the
> rise of prevocalic
> */n./ in the sequence *n.V, which may have been
> pronounced as *n.nV with
> a "linking" non-syllabic *[n] filling the hiatus
> between syllabic
> segments (just as */iV/ was pronounced *[ijV]).

Based on the timing of these rules I believe x
didn't drop out until much later. The order would be:

X = H
G = glide (w, y)

n, > a / _$N
N, > aN / _$R/N/G/X
R, > @R / _$R/N/G/X
xY, mY n, > xY,+nasal n,
X, > +nasal / _$N G
X > x
x, > @
@+nasal > a
n, > na / V/G$_#
n, > an / _#
r, > ar / _#
@ > i

> As regards
> the later vocalisation
> of the resonant, it generally proceeded in the same
> way as in other
> positions, though there are occasional divergences.
> For example in Latin
> prevocalic syllabic liquids are vocalised with /a/
> (from an epenthetic
> "schwa secundum") rather than /o/, so a sequence
> like *Cr.HV- develops
> into /CarV/).

I'd say that after x drops r,/l, > r/l in
resyllabification (prae, tra:ns). However, wr- > r-
already so when wrx- > wr > war- or wor- (as in varus)
to correct the prohibited onset. The nasals had
become eN already.





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