Re: Li

On 2008-02-01 07:31, fournet.arnaud wrote:

>> the Skt.
>> compositional form <híri-> 'golden' (*g^Hl.h3i-)
> ======
> Why not gh_l_h3-
> with no -i- at all ?
> ================

That would have become Skt. *hi:r-

> What about an alternation H3 ~ w ?

It's possible in some cases (including the one under discussion), though
the quantitative or tonal effect of the laryngeal usually remains.

Piotr