Re: [tied] Re: Schleicher's Tale

>>>*&1 is a syllabic laryngeal. It was
>>>there before the breakup of PIE.
>>can you prove it? Can you show
>>that *&1smen did not have an initial consonant cluster, simplified within
>>each daughter language?

>Do you mean *h1smén ([hsmén] or [?smén])?

The form is yours, not mine. I am merely quoting what you said:
"e.g. *h1és-mi, *&1s-mén"

Peter