Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-11-01 21:46, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
> > Doesn't work either. Unstressed -we- or -wo- doesn't give -u-.
>
> They do. For example, the root *swe(:)p- 'sleep' has the zero grade
> *sup-, as in *sup-no-; the zero grade of *h2weks- 'grow' is *h2uks-
> (as in Skt. uks.ant-); the zero grade of *weg^H- is *ug^H- (RV
> uha:na-). Lots of similar examples could be given, including, of
> course, *k^won-/*k^un-.

We're talking different things. Of course PIE -we- gives -u- in zero
grade morphologically. I'm saying that unstressed -we- or -wo- -> -u-
doesn't make much sense phonetically. I'd like to see an example of it
elsewhere.


Torsten