Re: Syncope

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> > By this point, we should see that the solution I side with is
> > the most intuitive, doesn't raise added problems, and can solve a
> > wide array of otherwise arcane alternations such as *dyeu-

/*deiwo-.

> > We now see that all initial consonant clusters must be the
> > product of Syncope until it is shown otherwise that a CV(C)
> > shape is insufficient to explain early IE forms.

I have been doing you wrong if your theory can explain the relation
between *dyéu- and *deiwó-. Any such theory is of course a major
step forward. I obviously missed something, so where exactly did
your theory do this? I am sure all will agree that this deserves to
be repeated.

Jens