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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
uvularize .
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Examples
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The vowel *ə in that example, not being a low vowel, didn't uvularize the preceding word-initial velar stop to *q-, although the following laryngeal was uvularized by the second vowel.
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The vowel *ə in that example, not being a low vowel, didn't uvularize the preceding word-initial velar stop to *q-, although the following laryngeal was uvularized by the second vowel.
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I think what happened next was that once uvular consonants became phonemicized in Late IE, *h2 was uvularized and became aligned with the new sound *q traditional plain *k.
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