Re: [tied] delve it was slavic "dalto"

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Dan,
>
> I glossed it below as 'chisel'. Applying the normal metathetic
> transformations you'll get Russ. doloto, Pol. dl/uto (< dl/óto), Cz.
> dláto. There is also a South Slavic variant, dle^to < *delto <
> *delb-to, based directly on the verb *del(b)ti. Outside of Slavic we
> have OPruss. dalptan 'chisel' (the same word as *dol(b)to)
>
> The root *delb- < PIE *dHelbH-, cf. Eng. delve
>
> Piotr

delve - O.E. delfan "to dig" (class III strong verb; past tense dealf,
pp. dolfen).

Since in all Slavic is not cluster "bt" in the dalto, what does it make
you belive " it was" one there?