Re: Octha or Ohta?

From: stlatos
Message: 68498
Date: 2012-02-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> W dniu 2012-02-07 23:37, stlatos pisze:
>
> > You can attempt to pick out whatever happens to be similar in a few and
> > use that, but there are many that differ. The most common in Slavic
> > appears on the surface as KYa > Ka , but of course the a is caused by x
> > in most of those cases.
>
> *kosa, *svekUrU and *svekry have *k before the reflexes of pre-Slavic
> *o, *u and *r, respectively, and no evidence of a laryngeal in the root.
>


I never said anything about these being caused by the same thing I used in my examples. One possible reg. change is KYSV-front > KS etc. (w ana. in *svekUrU). There was no kY in kosa (in Baltic: kast = rake, kasît = scrape Lat; etc.), and ev. in Indo-Iranian is suspect because of influence from alt. kx / ts (most from alt. q / t. and X / s. > s/s^ , etc.) in neighboring l. families (Kora; So:rå; and Thulung; Kulung; etc.).