Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Not that i know of.

A sound law has been suggested to account for Proto-Norse -gg- from a
combination of laryngeal and semivowel but I am not sure whether
there couldn't be alternative explanations.

In any event Germanic and Balto-Slavic should both originate from the
corded ware complex, so the loss of laryngeals in Germanic should
have happened after the break up of the corded ware culture at the
earliest.

Therefore it is to be expected that some lone-etymologies could exist
from a Pre-Germanic late PIE dialect into Pre-Finnic. Words like
kaski and kasa (the latter cognate to 'edge') fit the picture well.

Jouppe

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> Thanx for explaining. No such law or traces in Gmc?
>
> --- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:22:14 -0800 (PST), Rick
> > McCallister
> > <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > >So what you're saying has tremendous implications
> > for
> > >the history of Gmc and B/S --that laryngeals
> > survived
> > >the IE break-up
> >
> > We knew that already. Hirt's law, which affects
> > only
> > Balto-Slavic, causes retraction of the accent to a
> > preceding
> > syllable if it has a non-vocalized laryngeal in the
> > syllable
> > coda (but not, for instance, if it has a
> > non-laryngeally
> > caused long vowel). That shows that laryngeals
> > survived
> > until after the establishment of Proto-Balto-Slavic.
> >
> > =======================
> > Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> > miguelc@...
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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