Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

> Your question about PIE *-we-/-wo-/-u- is interesting.
> You can have two starting points :
> 1. vowel *u
> 2. consonant *w
>
> We have been discussing how *k^u-H2on became *k^won.
>
> I think the answer to your question is in Saussure's Mémoire.
> PIE *-we-/-wo-/-u- is to what
> PIE *-re-/-ro-/-r.- is to
> PIE *-le-/-lo-/-l.-
> PIE *-ne-/-no-/-n.-
> In others words, vowel u is a kind of w. (consonant with a dot
> beneath).
> a "kind of", because this entails a confusion between phonology and
> morphology.

In other words, it's not an answer.

> This functioning can only have happened _after_ unstressed vowels
> were completely muted out in pre-PIE.

Doesn't work either. Unstressed -we- or -wo- doesn't give -u-.

More likely -we- and -wo- are the result of analogical levelling.


Torsten

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