From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61119
Date: 2008-10-31
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
>
>> By the way,
>>
>> do you have examples of -uH2o- in the standard theory ?
>
> Of course.
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So
What are the possible examples ?
A.
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>
>> What should we expect from that ?
>
> In most branches, we get *-uwo- or some similar disyllabic reflex.
> However, *-uwV- and *-ijV- can also come from other sources (especially
> Sievers and Lindeman variants of plain *-wV- and *-jV-), so if you have
> *k^u[w]o:(n) as a byform of *k^wo:(n), in doesn't guarantee an internal
> laryngeal (it's the same phenomenon as *dje:us ~ *di[j]e:us). It's the
> zero grade that shows the difference. There's no single IE branch to
> show a long nucleus in what would have to be *kuh2n-ós under your
> analysis.
>
> Piotr