From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 63747
Date: 2009-04-03
>So Pokorny (Pok.146) was an idiot, thinking to bHes-2 here?
> 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
>