PS: Re: Greek question & the pre-history of *nekwt

[Yoel L. Arbeitman]

>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:44:45 -0500
>To: Indo-European at xkl.com
>From: "Yoel  L. Arbeitman" <yoel at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: Greek question & the pre-history of *nekwt
>In-Reply-To: <00f401be6aba$523ddd80$f79ffad0 at patrickcryan>

 	In re my message of last night, more precision was needed in the
statement that *gw(h) disappears, *kw(h) doesn't in change from PA to
Common Luwian: In PA *e/agw-, IE *e/agwh- > Common Luw. u:, the -g-
component of he -gw- cluster (the labio-velars are clusters, not unitary
phonemes in Anatolian) disappears. This leaves Pre-Luw. *e/au which, in
turn > u: "to drink". Thus we have Hittite /agwantsi/ "they drink",
/eguteni/ "you [pl.] drink", but Cun. and Hiero.. Luw. /u:tis/ "you (sg.)
drink" < *a/e(g)w-tis.
Yoel

	Yoel