"centum"/"satem" "exceptions" [was Re: Northwest IE attributes]

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>frank at uiowa.edu writes:

>What are the data sources for the reconstruction *uriien?

-- *uri, if you want the root.  There are cognates in Thracian (from
place-names, mostly), Mycenaean Greek, and Tocharian.

>Do you mean to suggest by citing this example that there was a loss of the
>initial plosive in the case of Tocharian.

-- my ignorance of Tocharian is profound and deep.  I have no idea.