Re: [tied] IIr 2nd Palatalisation (was: PIE voiceless aspirates)

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 41964
Date: 2005-11-09

Patrick Ryan wrote:

> How would you explain cá:yati from *kWei-(t-)?
>
> You think the <a:> represents *e:?

It represents *e: < *eh1- (*kWeh1- 'fear, revere' [EIEC]). Compare the
Slavic cognate *c^ajoN, which can _only_ derive from *k(W)e:-j...

Piotr