PIE e/o Ablaut

[Richard M. Alderson III]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Pat Ryan (proto-language at email.msn.com) wrote:

> I am under the impression that a consistent explanation ofIE /o/ has been
> formulated: namely, that /e'/ becomes /o/ when the stress-accent is
> transferred to another syllable.

The *pitch* accent, not the *stress* accent, at least if you are having
recourse to Lehmann's theory of the vowel system.

								Rich Alderson