Re: Ie. *laywos/leh2iwos (was: ka and k^a)

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 40567
Date: 2005-09-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate KapoviƦ <mkapovic@...> wrote:

> > Less realistic than *laiwos, given the circumflex intonation,
which
> > indicates a laryngeal-less root. Derksen posits *lh2aiwo-. Brave
boys,
> > laryngealising to the last ;-).
>
> Circumflex intonation where? The word itself is not attested in
Baltic and
> the Slavic circumflex is irrelevant since we would expect it there
anyway
> (Greek laiĆ³s - acute would disappeare via Meillet's Law in Slavic
the word
> being mobile).

But what about Hirt's law? Wouldn't Slavic a.p. c point to the
absence of a laryngeal at least on the flanks of *i? That's probably
why Derksen posits *lh2aiwo-: it would nicely account both for the
Lithuanian acute (if one subscribes to Kortland's view that (C)HV
yields acute in Baltic and Slavic) and the Slavic a.p. c.

Sergei