From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52588
Date: 2008-02-10
> The Loan Ranger rides again.____________________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 3:26 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE.
> *gWiH3w-
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>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > PPIE a -> e, o, zero.
> > PPIE i -> i:, i:, i -> ei, ei, i -> ei, oi, i
> > PPIE u -> u:, u:, u -> ou, ou, u -> eu, ou, u
> >
> > The last step was made for systematic reasons, not
> phonological ones
> > (and only partially).
> > =============
> > I nearly agree.
> > But PPIE *o is not the same thing as PPIE *a > e,
> zero.
>
> If PPIE had had other vowels than i, a, u it would
> not had let a
> develop allophones swinging as wildly as to e and o.
> PIE *o in roots
> when not in an ablaut relationship are either from
> loans or from
> decompositions.
>
> > It's also unclear whether zero or °
> > is always from *a or from any other vowel.
>
> Not. Zero degree of the two other vowels are *i and
> *u, not zero.
>
>
> Torsten
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>