Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55333
Date: 2008-03-16

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski


*tr.h1-trah2 > Lat. terebra
*pah2-tlom > Lat. pa:bulum
*poh3-tlom > Lat. po:culum

How do you explain this variation?

Piotr

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Vowels a and e are anterior vowels
which prompt a frontal -dh- > -b- allophone.

Vowel o is a posterior vowel
which prompts a velar -c- allophone.

So what ?
Front is front, back is back.
The sun shines and the earth
revolves. Nothing new.

Arnaud

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