From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 63720
Date: 2009-03-31
>I was thinking more of how *sehwan > *sehan > *séa > *seá > *siá > sjá (or a very similar process), but in the case of *ehwaz, with vocalization of *w providing the vowel after the *e, which *e could have become a glide. But if it did follow your proposal (which I admit is certainly more likely), I would think *iOhwR would then become *iOhR, then *jO:R, and finally *jo:r. Hvél/hjól < *hwehwlam shows that alternative developments are possible before *hw, even in the same word.
> At 11:26:08 PM on Sunday, March 29, 2009, Andrew Jarrette
> wrote:
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> [...]
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> > The similar-looking ON *Jo:r can come from a hypothetical
> > *eur-, or the actual *ehwaz 'horse' (> *e:waz or similar >
> > *e:wz > *e:uz > *e:oz > *eo:z > *io:z > *jo:z > *jo:r; or
> > some similar process of development, I don't know the
> > actual steps in the process of *ehwaz > jo:r);
>
> Probably something like *ehwaz > *iOhwR > *jO(:)wR > *jo:r.
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