From: fortuna11111
Message: 22485
Date: 2003-06-02
> >realizations
> > But Jens, how will you account for the /i/ and /u/ in Sanskrit?
>
> That's very easy: Just like IE [i] and [u] which are simply
> of the phonemes /y/ and /w/ where not adjacent to a vowel. If the[i] of
> IE *h1itós 'gone' was a /y/ to Benveniste and still is to Lehmann,why
> would the [i] of Skt itás have a different status?Yes, I remembered that, thanks.