Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:25:28 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-03-25 15:06, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
>> As to "eye", it could be *h3ekW-{}/*h3kw-{} or
>> *h3okW-{}/*h3ekW-{}, of course, but I have some theoretical
>> objections against *h3VkW- as a root (with two labialized
>> segments on both sides of the vowel). I would rather expect
>> *h1okW- and/or *h3ok(^)-, with dissimilation.
>
>First, it isn't absolutely certain that *h3 was labialised. Secondly, if
>we have *wekW- 'speak', wegW- 'moisten', *gWou- 'cow', *gWih3(w)-
>'live', then why not *h3ekW-?

I mean labialized (h3 (= xW, hW), kW, gW, ghW, sW), not
labial (m, w, p, b(h)). The line is a bit hard to draw
sometimes. For instance, I believe that *w can be both
things: original **w, or labialized **nW/**mW > *w.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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