Re: Meillet's law

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mcarrasquer" <miguelc@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mandicdavid" <davidmandic@> wrote:
> >
> > But would the laryngeal have triggered lengthening if it had been

a

> > part of the onset of the following syllable?
> > Wouldn't the development of this word in that case look like

this:

> > trów-HeH2 > trów?a: > tráwa: > trová ?
>
> The laryngeal has nothing to do with the lengthening.
>
> We have a root *trawH- (or *s'law-), which is lengthened to *tra:wH-

> (*s'la:w-) by a process known as vr.ddhi (in this case, late Balto-
> Slavic vr.ddhi, as shown by Lithuanian s^love:, not *s^luove:).

Sorry, I didn't think of this being a vrddhi length. Now it all turns
out to be much clearer.:-)

> The laryngeal, in my view, is significant only for the

syllabification

> of the lengthened form (*tra:w-HaH vs. *s'la:-waH), which

subsequently

> determines the development of the accentuation in Slavic (travá vs.
> sláva).
>