Re: Finnish KASKA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA


> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:17:37 -0600, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >Thank you for your thoughts.
> >
> >I cannot accept **du as a root.
> >
> >It is not monosyllabic *CV because *u is a vocalic allophone of a
> >consonant:
> >*w.
>
> Not at the stage I was discussing (when pre-PIE had *a, *i,
> *u and *a:, *i:, *u:). Even after most *u's and *i's had
> developed into *e (or zero), /u/ and /i/ remained as vowels
> under certain circumstances until PIE. Do you accept the
> root *tu "thou"?
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...

***

No, not at this time time. I think the real base is *té to which a
topical -*w has been added.

I do not believe that *i and *u remained under any circumstances after all
short vowels became *A(blautvokal).

Patrick