Re: *a/*a: ablaut

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> That way, I can stick with a PPIE vowel inventory of three: i, a, u,
> and don't have to, like Piotr, find a hole in that triangle to
> insert an ancestor of PIE a.
>
> Torsten
>
> ==========
>
> Starting with Pre-PIE i a u
> what are the continuators of these i a u
> into PIE ?
>
> Arnaud

The ablaut series
ei oi i (< ei ei i < i: i: i)
e o zero (< a: a: a)
eu ou u (< ou ou u < u: u: u)

but whether there was different quantities, I don't know.


Torsten