Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> > This functioning can only have happened _after_ unstressed vowels
> > were completely muted out in pre-PIE.
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> Doesn't work either. Unstressed -we- or -wo- doesn't give -u-.
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> More likely -we- and -wo- are the result of analogical levelling.
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> Torsten
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> Can you give some precise words we can discuss ?
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> Arnaud
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Take any in *we- in Pokorny. I think the whole ablaut series PIE
-e-/-o-/zero is originally the reflexes of PPIE -a-

Thus PPPIE
-á:-/´-a:-/-a-´
-í:-/´-i:-/-i-´
-ú:-/´-u:-/-u-´
í:-/i-´
ú:-/u-´

-> PPIE
-é:-/´-o:-/zero´
-ey-/´-ey-/-i-´
-ów-/´-ow-/-u-´
éy-/í-´
ów-/u-´


-> (by analogy) PIE
-é:-/´-o:-/-zero-´
-éy-/´-oy-/-i-´
-éw-/´-ow-/-u-´
éy-/í-´
wé-/u-´


vel sim.!


Torsten