[tied] Re: bg. nvEsta

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> RUKI was blocked in Slavic when a consonant followed.
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> Cf. pe^sta 'pestle' < *poista: vs. *pIxati 'push, crush' < *pis-a:-
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> Piotr

Probably when an _obstruent_ followed (cf. *sUxno~ti 'get dry',
*ruxlU 'movable').

Sergei