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

[Stanley Friesen]

At 12:05 PM 2/5/00 +0000, petegray wrote:
>Miguel wrote:
>>For instance, I don't think
>> Benveniste's root-theory allows *i and *u in the V position (or
>> does it?).  It would be nice to have statistics.

>Forgive my ignorance - I'm puzzled here.   *CiC and *CuC roots are
>plentiful, e.g. *digh goat, *bhidh pot, *k'ik strap, *knid louse;  *trus
>reed, *k'up shoulder, *k'udh dung, *lus louse etc etc.

>Could you help me understand what you meant here?

Benveniste considers all of these to be zero-grades of "full" roots.

I think this is over-reaching.

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