From: johnvertical@...
Message: 65871
Date: 2010-02-17
> > The vowels underlying these paradigms is PPIE i: and u:, respectively. Their ablaut patterns are remodeled after that of PPIE a:, which became the PIE ablaut vowel, with three grades resulting from the position relative to the stress, thus:and wasn't this about words particular to Germanic, not inherited from PIE?
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> > I think that Kuhn's ar-/ur- language, or NWB I (non-IE?), is where these words were likely taken from, and that it happened so early that some of the loans underwent the analogical change u: -> eu/ou/u.
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> How exactly does that work in geographical terms? Wouldn't pre-IE have been spoken thousands of kilometers away from the "Nordwestblock" area?
> John Vertical