minimal pairs (was: PIE e/o Ablaut)

[Stanley Friesen]

At 03:50 PM 4/22/00 -0500, proto-language wrote:
>[SF]

>> Unfortunately, every such rule I have seen proposed requires modifying the
>> reconstructed PIE lexicon, or it has too many exceptions to be counted as a
>> rule.

>[PR]

>Generalizations are dandy but specifics are more helpful.

>Examples?

Try some of the other letters in this thread: for instance *to'mos/tomo's,
which makes hash of just about every rule so far suggested.

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