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

[Stanley Friesen]

At 10:11 AM 2/8/00 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>Compare the number of Ce-/Co-roots (e.g. in Pokorny) with the
>number of Ci-/Cu-roots.  I guesstimate the difference is a factor
>10 or so.

Certainly.  But in my book, even a handful of such roots is enough to
establish i and u as PIE vowel phonemes.

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