Re: Indo-Uralic?

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

[>] Jouppe wrote:

>> *gw- is one phoneme (no superscript on my machine, we are talking
>> about the labiovelar stop here, this internet limitation is the
>> reason i use q' on my homepage) and the next is a nasal. Where does
>> the -u- appear from? It is certainly not part of the root!

> **gwneh2- does not exist a word.
> it either *gu--neH2 (with no morphological e/o)
> or *gwe--n (with e)

*gw (plain velar + semivowel), *g^w (Satemising velar + semivowel) and
*gW ('labiovelar', probably a labialised velar, though I could cite
typological evidence suggesting its coarticulated :) are distinguished
in PIE reconstructions. Examples:

*gwes 'branches, leaves'
*g^wer 'to burn and be hot'
*gWem 'come, go'

Tocharian and Sanskrit give evidence of something like zero grade
*gWnah2 for woman, though there may well be yet another laryngeal in
there. Greek _gune:_ is isolated, and is probably a Greek innovation.

Richard.