Re: Pre-PIE Verbal Morphology

--- In nostratic@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:13:05 -0000, "Magwich78" <magwich78@...>

wrote:

>
> >I forgot something:
> >
> >In Late PIE, (stress-accented?) /e/ > /o/ before a nasal. Thus,
> >bherem' > bherom', bhere'mes > bhero'mes, and bherent' > bheront'.
>
> That only goes for the thematic vowel (which gives /o/ before all

voiced

> phonemes, including nasals). Plain accented /é/ always remains

as /é/ before

> nasals (n-stem gen. sg. -énos, athematic 3pl. -ént, etc., etc.).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Good point. Do you know why it only changes to an /o/ when it's
a "thematic vowel"?

Also, what do you think of the rest of my reconstruction?

- Rob