Re: [tied] eye

>initial *h3- for this word (*h3ekw) would
> seem to be in conflict with the reduplicated *i:kw- forms found in
> Sanskrit and Greek. In Greek, *h3i-h3kw- should give *yo:kw- (zo:p-,
> ho:p-, zo:b-, ho:b-?), shouldn't it?

I don't follow that argument. #HiV- might well give zV or yV, but here we
don't have HiV, we have HiH, which could give Hi: > i:, which is just what
we find. The only potential problem was with the form quoted in Pokorny as
/enipe:/ (short i), but in fact he's wrong. It is, as it must be, a long
i:.

Likewise there is no immediate problem I can see with the Sanskrit forms
with i:. Why should they not be from h3ih3?

Peter