From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 53071
Date: 2008-02-14
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] *a/*a: ablaut
> On 2008-02-14 05:03, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > I would be kinder.
> >
> > I think it is a last-ditch defense of a theory that has clay feet.
> >
> > We will se what Piotr says about what differed among the two *a's.
>
> I think I have said it before: my opinion is that prior to the
> development of ablaut PIE had two non-high vowel phonemes with the
> approximate values *& (mid) and *a (low). The former became the "ablaut"
> vowel *e/*o, the latter became *a/*a: (merging with those instances of
> *e that got a-coloured).
>
> Piotr
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If you will forgive me, Piotr, that is not what I thought you said before.
I understood: there are two *a's: some became *a, others *a:.
And now you wish to _add_ a new vowel to the PIE inventory?
Wow!
Patricj