Re: *a/*a: ablaut

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

>
> On 2008-02-12 20:47, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > What would separate those *a's that became *a: from those that
> > became *A(blautvokal)?
>
> They were different phonemes in pre-PIE, IMO.

How would you explain Kuhn's 'a-fashion' in agricultural terms?


Torsten