Re: [tied] What song did the IEs sing?

> >> the retention the velar in _all_ Indo-Iranian forms (except in
> >>reduplication syllables, as in 3sg. perf. jagau < *g(W)e-g(W)oH-e).
> > Why should the velar not survive?
> Well, it should have been palatalised before *e.

Oh, silly me. I just assumed the g- was generalised, and hadn't seen the
problem.

> My own proposal, published some time ago, was that the "long-diphthong
> roots" had the structure CeiH-, with monophthongisation

I like that. There are a large number of roots which Pokorny lists with a
long vowel and final -(i). This has long intrigued me.

Peter