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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> Well, perhaps not simpler?
>
> But two stops (t?, th) and two affricates (t?s, ths) is pretty simple.
>
> Perhaps you would care to give a few examples that I will try to
illustrate through my proposed system?
I'll get back to you on that one. I don't have access to the data
right now.
> We have doublets like PIE *beu-/*bheu (from *p?o, I think). We have
PIE *wi/i: (from *p?ay-, I think). And from *p?ay-, Sumerian be-4 (*bê
?), divide, allot; Egyptian *pj, divide (analyzed from *pj(3).t,
offering); Sino-Tibetan, *pij, give (Starostin); Tibeto-Burman
*b/pe-s, break into pieces Matisoff).
After posting my response last night I discovered that Pokorny has *wi
apart, in two, *bHeid to split, and weidH to separate. I've noticed
that PIE has no roots like **weu. I always assumed that if they had
existed they would have dissimilated to *yeu. Perhaps in your
reconstructions *p?eu > *beu or *bHeu since **weu was apparently not
allowed.