Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, fortuna11111 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
> <jer@...> wrote:
> > Tee-hee, as I have said a number of time already, Sanskrit *is*
> > monovocalic
>
> Just as all Indo-Iranian languages.
>
> in exactly the sense of the most extremist view of PIE. That,
> > however, does not force PIE to be so also.
> >
> > Jens
>
> But Jens, how will you account for the /i/ and /u/ in Sanskrit?

That's very easy: Just like IE [i] and [u] which are simply realizations
of the phonemes /y/ and /w/ where not adjacent to a vowel. If the [i] of
IE *h1itós 'gone' was a /y/ to Benveniste and still is to Lehmann, why
would the [i] of Skt itás have a different status?

Jens