Re: [cybalist] Hamp and his dog, an IE shepherd: a self-correction

May be. But

1.  The so called third palatalization acted much later than RUKI rule (with its cognates in Baltic and Indo-Iranian).( Cf. such amazing examples from beech bark inscriptions like вьхъ 'all' etc. They show that in North Krivichian dialect of Old Russian this palatalization hadn't been completed yet by the X-XI cc).

2. So we can suppose the following development:

*pis-o-/-u->*piS-o-/-u->*pьxъ>*pьs'ь>various derivates in Slavic languages with 'hardened' (depalatalized) s and consecutive involving of the word in -o-stem paradigms (qiute normal developement). By the way, why the -u- stem is reconstructed?

 

Sergei 

 

The development proposed by myself is highly unprobable due to existance of the Slavic form *pьsь̆jь 'dog's'. RUKI-rule development woud give **pьxьjь>**pьšь̆jь.

 

Sergei