... Greek ... yields ... "while heterosyllabic *ew (normally) yields *aw." -> Sergei is possible that e:w > a:u too? In this case the derivation will be...
... And (e) the lengthening effect in sandhi, e.g. *n.-h1s-(e)nt- > RV á:sat- 'non-existent'. Here, the lengthening betrays the presence of a laryngeal, and...
... But PIE *swéso:r had initial stress, and in none of its forms was it shifted to the second syllable. Proto-Albanian shows many instances of stress...
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The same occurs in standard Portuguese, alto /autu/, Ronaldo /Ronaudu/, sal /sau/. ... Dutch did something similar: /ol/ > /ou/ > (in my ears) /au/. Not in the...
... Even so, a sequence like /n.?s-/ or /n.hs-/ seems very difficult to pronounce cross-linguistically. Also cf. Biblical Hebrew, where phonetic (but not...
... d,g,b>zero) ... it ... of ... of ... kind of ... Piotr, if the stressed was still on the first syllable, when PAlb e > je has started, for sure we need to...
... Well, surely the schwa was used as a vowel in PIE. Doesn't the use of laryngeals attempt to shelve it? If so, I think that could be a mistake. I think that...
... With every language, there's a difference between what's phonemic (that is, distinctive from other sounds) and what's phonetic (what is actually...
... and ... Pssssst! A fricative can act as syllabic nucleus quite fine, if indeed it truly is necessary to break up such clusters. :^) ... Is that really...
... Well, in everyday Georgian, I've read, vowels are often skimped over, so everything seens to be in consonants. Probably more that all the vowels are...
... Well I know almost nothing about Kartvelian, and it's off-topic besides, so I suppose I shall have to take your word for it. However I really have my...
... In the Lake District in England, a local pronunciation of _Ulswater_ has /a/ for 'a' (or something very similar, identified by RP speakers with [æ]). The...
Hello, could anyone, please, help me with following formula? IE *VgV/gn > Luwian *0V/n (0=empty, nothing) I found it in a bad photo-copy of an old document....
... They were written that way when they were first reconstructed, because it was thought that Sanskrit preserved PIE better than other languages. Since then...
... Excuse a tautology, but no language is difficult to its own speakers once they have fully acquired it. My own native language has some really monstrous...
... So why was it on the second syllable if (1) it wasn't there in PIE and (2) there's no other evidence of a stress-shift from first to second syllable in the...
... And this despite the fact that we would in principle expect a lowered vowel in a Germanic a-stem (cf. German Wolf, whose <o> is NOT orthographic). However,...
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:27:00 +0000, alexandru_mg3 ... I asked him this morning at Zagreb airport. ... Just type 'k' in the "Proto-Slavic", select "Match ...
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