Re: Km > gn

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

>
> On 2008-01-25 01:20, stlatos wrote:
>
> > You already described this and more before. I stand by my earlier
> > responses. My list of contradictions included (o)u-mo words you said
> > didn't count. What about those with both P and u (pugnus, bottom)?
>
> If I understand Jens's theory, the infixed *O doesn't surface if the
> root is "heavy", i.e. of the form CeuC rather than Cew, except in cases
> like *sjeuh1-, where the laryngeal is lost in the process (I hope I'm
> not attributing to Jens ideas he would disagree with). I said a
> root-FINAL *w had this effect in direct contact with the nasal, as in
> the examples I gave.

What I meant was that the P at the beginning should have turned mn>n
in that theory, not m (pugme:, bottom). I wanted to know if any
previous description had somehow attributed this directly to u for
some odd reason.

You already described OC vs OuC. I know you said oumno > oumo
before, I was wondering about these similar cases which seem to
contradict the previous descriptions by containing mo.