Re: bhosos

On 2009-04-03 21:57, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> Also my opinion is that no vocalisation is need in bHVs-mso- (PIE m. >
> Skt. a)
>
> Because the supposed word bHVs-mso- would have been had 2 syllables: /
> bHVs - mso / : so there is no need for a vocalisation of m (> Skt. a)
> because the word is easy to be pronounced...

Unfortunately, speakers of PIE and Old Indic didn't think so. /ms/ was
not a permissible syllable onset in either language, nor was /sm/ a
permissible syllable coda. And, of course, there is no *-ms- suffix, let
alone a suffix complex like *-ms-es-, which you would need in <bHam.sas->.

Piotr