tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post2516102714596760732..comments2023-09-24T05:45:23.811-05:00Comments on Paleoglot: Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case systemGlen Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-43247356358244116952008-03-06T17:38:00.000-06:002008-03-06T17:38:00.000-06:00Well, *ikwa is the correct projection although som...Well, <B>*ikwa</B> is the correct projection although somehow I doubt that Sea Peoples would retain a word for an animal on the plains. The temptation for Proto-Aegean speakers to forget the word on the islands and only borrow it later from Egyptian, Ugaritic or Luwian during the height of the Minoan civilization would be large, I would think. But I digress.<BR/><BR/>Anyways, aside from that Glen Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-31401176405553360462008-03-06T10:21:00.000-06:002008-03-06T10:21:00.000-06:00Okay. Let's take your hypothesis to its logical c...Okay. Let's take your hypothesis to its logical conclusion.<BR/><BR/>Pre-Indo-Aegean:<BR/><B>*ikwa, *ikwasi</B><BR/><BR/>Proto-Indo-Aegean:<BR/><B>*əkwa, *əkwasə</B><BR/><BR/>Old IE, before PAS:<BR/><B>*əkwa-sa, *əkwasə</B><BR/><BR/>Old IE, after PAS:<BR/><B>*əkwa-sa, *əkwásə</B><BR/><BR/>Mid IE (unstressed vowel merger):<BR/><B>*əkwasa, *akwása</B><BR/><BR/>Late IE (Syncope):<BR/><B>*əkws, *Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04877359715103710249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-41161983601476699162008-03-05T13:41:00.000-06:002008-03-05T13:41:00.000-06:00Rob: "How do you explain an alleged alternation be...<B>Rob: <I>"How do you explain an alleged alternation between nom. sg. **ékwas and gen. sg. **ekwás in the first place?"</I></B><BR/><BR/>I already explained. Listen closely again! :P I'll start from the beginning.<BR/><BR/>My hypothesis is that the genitive singular and a few other case endings were first created in early Proto-Indo-Aegean (c.8500 BCE) by agglutinating postpositions to the noun Glen Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-62787059353106461652008-03-05T10:16:00.000-06:002008-03-05T10:16:00.000-06:00Something I don't understand here. How do you exp...Something I don't understand here. How do you explain an alleged alternation between nom. sg. <B>**ékwas</B> and gen. sg. <B>**ekwás</B> in the first place?Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04877359715103710249noreply@blogger.com