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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
<liberty@...> wrote:
> >
> > Am I misunderstanding something? I see no reflex of *k^, *g^,
> > or *g^H before a dental stop here, or of *s after RUKI.
>
> widsu > wissu > wis^s^u
It's *widHu-, not 'widsu', and if anything like 'wissu'
had ever really developed out of it, it could have only
taken place outside the sequence of changes leading from
P.I.E. to Proto-Indo-Aryan, wherein *widHu- would have
remained *widHu- from beginning to end. This means that
any change of *s to *s^ in this hypothetical word would
be unrelated to the RUKI changes affecting Indo-Iranian,
which worked on the Satem reflexes of P.I.E. *s and *[z],
not *dh.
You also appear to have a plain velar in your *selika:-,
whereas the Satem changes involved in my question worked
on Satem reflexes of the palato-velars alone.
> Or maybe you have a better idea for a PIE origine of vas^s^u ?
None at all, but then I wasn't looking for one.
David