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

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"petegray" <petegray at btinternet.com> 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.

>(a) Bird offers a summary of Pokorny's roots, identifying the core elements,
>and ignoring the variety of extensions.   He ends up with 2050 such roots.
>Of these exactly 775 have neither e nor e: anywhere.

38%.  Is that including a(:) and o(:)?

>The number of CeC
>roots (i.e. with no resonant) is 548.

>(b) How are you treating roots which show CeRC / CRC ablaut?

Benveniste treats them as CeRC roots.

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