From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53793
Date: 2008-02-20
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From: Patrick Ryan
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:10 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA
Jouppe,
let me ask it another way:
in your view were *ö and *ü part of the earliest PU vowel inventory?
Patrick
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PU is "standard" Proto-World
and had only *a *i *o *u
A lot of contractions like
v + H-C
v + P-C
v + N-C
Plus Umlaut
v _ i
created confusion and
apparent "irregularities".
Arnaud
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