Re: [tied] Re: Back to Slava

>either *pot-i-s or *po-t-i-s. However, the Vedic form pátih. does
>not seem to fit the reconstructed o-vocalism (the form should be
>*pá:tih. via Brugmann's Law, I think).

There is debate about this. Some people claim Brugmann's Law applies only
to -o- from the ablauting vowel, and they use this word, and a handful of
others, as evidence of non-ablauting -o- remaining short. Others dispute
it.

Peter