Re: [tied] Olsen's Law [was: PIE Ploughs]

From: P&G
Message: 29989
Date: 2004-01-25

> According to Jens, the root *poh3- is actually *poh3i- (with possible
> contextual variants *poh3-, *poih3-, *pih3-, *ph3i-),

There seem to be a number of roots with final laryngeal that also show forms
with -i- (not counting the obvious Sanskrit i < vocalic H). They appear in
Pokorny with -(i) at the end. Piotr has suggested a reduction of an
original diphthong, but that explains the variation -euH/-eH and -eiH/-eH,
not the sequence -Hi. Besides, it is an i that pops up so unexpectedly in
these words, not u.
I don't know of any discussion of this. Any ideas?

Peter