[tied] Re: Baltic *gud3-

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>The PIE numeral "6" was *swek^s- (with variants), so the RUKI environment is there!
>

But /u/ goes _after_ s in *swek^s-. A metathesis? Some even reconstruct special PIE dialectal *ksek^s- (of dissimilative origin) to account for the Baltic, Slavic and Albanian forms.

Sergei.