From: tgpedersen
Message: 61066
Date: 2008-10-24
>So your 'followed later by rounding of *a: to *o' above should be
> At 3:21:44 PM on Friday, October 24, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@> wrote:
>
> >> At 12:46:17 PM on Friday, October 24, 2008, tgpedersen
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> You're right, so I can't use that to time *-a:- > *-o:-
> >>> which must then have taken place independently and
> >>> earlier; it's common Germanic AFAIK?
>
> >> Yes, though Ringe at least thinks that it was very late.
> >> (He has *o > *a and *o: > *a:, followed later by rounding
> >> of *a: to *o, the last change being very late, possibly even
> >> spreading by contact as PGmc. was breaking up.)
>
> > I thought the result of that, *a: > *o, was only in the
> > final syllable?
>
> You must have misunderstood. In Ringe's view the familiar
> unconditional a: > o: was actually a two-stage process.
> The first change, simultaneous with the merger of PIE *o and
> *a as PGmc. *a, was a merger of PIE *o: and *a: as *a:.
> Then at a later date this Pre-Gmc. *a: was rounded to PGmc.
> *o:. Thus, his view of the development of 'sweet' is PIE
> *swá:dus > *swa:tuz > PGmc. *swo:tuz. Another example, this
> one involving a laryngeal: PIE *dHóh1mos 'thing put' >
> *dHó:mos > *da:maz > PGmc. *do:maz 'judgement'.
>