PIE e/o Ablaut

[Stefan Georg]

>[PR]

>There is more than one claim that has been made. One of which is that no
>language has /o:/ and /e:/ without a corresponding /o/ and /e/ unless /o:/
>is derived from /au/ and /e:/ is derived from /ai/.

>This does not necessarily have to be synchronous. In Baluchi, it is obvious
>that /o:/ and /e:/ ultimately originated in an early Sanskrit /au/ and /ai/,
>is it not?

In diachronic terms, you are right, with the tiny (and picky)
amendment that the Balochi vowels are not derived from an "early
Sanskrit" source, since Balochi happens to be an Iranian language
rather than an Indic one.

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