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

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Stanley Friesen <sarima at friesen.net> wrote:

>Skt u:r regularly corresponds to a PIE vocalic resonant followed by a
>laryngeal.

And preceded by a labial (I forgot to mention that in my reply).
Otherwise we mostly have i:r.

>Skt mixes PIE 'l' and 'r', so one has to go elsewhere to find
>which is original.  Baltic <pilis> also regularly derives from a vocalic
>resonant.  Between these two we reconstruct PIE *plh-  (where the 'l' is
>the "vowel").

>The Greek shows o-grade instead of zero-grade, leading to *p(o)lh.

Oops, you're right, I didn't check my Greek soundlaws.  *plHis
would have given +palis, I guess.

>Based only on these examples, I see no trace of e-grade, but that may be
>due to the incompleteness of the list.

Pokorny does not give any more cognates.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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