Re: consonantal O

> Jens Elmegård Rasmussen. 1999. "A new rule of Indo-European accent:
> Greek tórmos/kormós; Germanic *waiþo:/*skando:"
> [originally published in APILKU 5, 1986].
> In: _Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics:
> With a Section on Comparative Eskimo Linguistics_,
> Museum Tusculanum Press, 157-169.

Thanks for the reference.
I see that the right orthography is not
O > O.
but
O with inverted breve under > O
which literally describes the name "consonantal O"
but unfortunately in the ISO-8859-1 enviroment we have no fallback
character for the diacritic "inverted breve under" (consonantal /u/ and
/i/ with it replacing by /w/ and /j/). Maybe Q could be used as the
fallback for "O with inverted breve under"; at least in some fonts and
in low resolution both glyphs look wery similar.

> Jens ... proposes ... the ... solution:
> "The vanishing of the laryngeal in the heavy cluster group
> must ... have begun before the infix was vocalized,
> but cannot have been completed till a later period.
> This means that at some intermediate stage
> we shall have to accept the existence of a reduced pronunciation
> of the laryngeals that were later to be dropped."

Fine, this allows to describe formally the sequence of changes and
handle it programatically.

P.A.