Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:

> In Baltic we have Lith. baidýti vs. Latv. bai~dy^t, of which
> the first appears to reflect *bai~d- with circumflex
> diphthong (perhaps from original *bhoh2i-dh(h1)- > *bo:id- >
> bai~d-), and the second *baíd- (< *bhoih2-dh(h1)-) with
> acute diphthong (if Pokorny's Latvian data is correct).
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...

Miguel, what is the base to assert h2 here in place of an unknown h

Thanks,
Marius