Re: Strange words out of place

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From: tgpedersen
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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 5:27 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Strange words out of place



> I have already written a couple of times that :
> Alef + C (unvoiced stop) =

Why 'alef'?

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Only glottal stop works
in that case (Features below)
the only "laryngeals" don't work the same.
Arnaud
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> - CC- in Celtic and Osco-Umbrian
> - long vowel + C in Latin
> - G voiced stop in Central and Eastern PIE.
>
> A good example is : *bh_l-H2-k
>
> LAtin ful-c-rum
> Greek phalan-g-s
> Germanic bal-c-on
> Skrt bhur-zh-
> etc
>
PIE *bhel-g^/k^-
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I think it's *bhel-?-k
The alternation is useless.
It's a phonotactic problem.
Arnaud
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> (s-)leu-?-k "swallow"
>
> Irish slu-g-im < -kk-
> German schlu-ck- < slu-g-
> etc

PIE *(s)leu-g/k-, OI slucim

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Same thing
Root is *s-l_?w-k
A
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Both with supposed alternating occlusives in auslaut in PIE. Seems you
rediscovered Schrijvers language of geminates.
Torsten
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It's not a "language" but
a feature of PIE.

A.

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