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[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Vartan and Nairy Matiossian <varny at cvtci.com.ar> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>> But Armenian eys^ (< *ek^wos) means "donkey".

>Actually, it's es^ (<*ek^wos), genitive is^oy "donkey" (the s^ is
>phonetically "sh").

Forgive me, I prefer to write <ey> in ASCII since I cannot write
e-macron (and <e:> suggests a phonological length that probably
wasn't there).  At least it's historically correct (PIE *ei >
Pre-Armenian *ey > Class.Arm. <e-macron> > Mod.Arm. /e-/, not
/je-/).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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