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Laurent Sagart, « 刖 'cutting the legs below the knee': a third example of vowel ablaut », Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, ID : 10.58079/ukdz
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After my last two posts discussing words for ‘200’ and for nose-cutting in the context of vowel ablaut, Ma Kun 马坤 sent me a private message inquiring about 刖 *[ŋ]ʷˤat ngwaet yuè ‘amputate the feet’ 0306h, which I had overlooked in my discussion of words of the shape *ŋˤVt having ‘cut off’ semantics. This word turns out to be another example of the spreading process described in my two last post, though only as far as vowel spreading goes. The pharyngealization specification does not spread...