Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

Arnaud Fournet pisze:

> The graphic invention of k^w distinct from kW is a way of "saving" a
> couple of words that are very dubious in the first place. As I
> mentioned quite a lot of times, dog k^won is bad, it should be kuH2on
> as confirmed by all the rest of the world but the indo-europeanist
> dogma won't move an inch, I suppose.

For the very good reason that the zero grade is *k^un-/*k^wn.-,
certainly not *k^uh2n-. "The world" is not enough. A PIE reconstruction
has to fit the IE data in the first place.

> horse ek^wos is worse, as this
> is not even a PIE-stage word and internal correspondances within IE
> data are horrendous.

What's so horrendous about it? The fact that Gk. (h)ippos is not a
perfect match for the rest? That's just one branch showing an
idiosyncratic development. You're trying to make a mountain out of an
anthill.

> I think the opposition of k^ and k does not exist but the opposition
> between g and g^ and gh and g^h exists.

Curiouser and curiouser :)

Piotr