From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56122
Date: 2008-03-28
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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The reconstruction given by Sammallahti is *kota.
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How does *kota account for Hungarian ha:z
with a long a ?
Arnaud
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>
>Why did Permic lose the final consonant
>when it did not in some other words
>of the same language ?
Because Permic lost the intervocalic stop (*kota > *kua).
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Permic :
n'oma > n'ima
n'ole "arrow" > n'il
Out of *kota
we should expect *kia
(assuming this law were right)
Arnaud
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>Why should u become wa
>when it did not in some other words
>of the same language ?
Because /wa/ regularly reflects *-o(t)a.
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See above
o_a > i_a
Arnaud
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It would be better for all if you just mumbled your ad
hominems quietly to yourself.
Miguel
I shall be grateful
if you could avoid asking me
"if I'm deliberately stupid"
You can keep that for yourself too.
Arnaud
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