Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

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From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
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Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

> But where's the evidence that interconsonantal *h2 yields Balto-
> Slavic *a rather than zero? Even such a laryngealistic purist as
> Beekes posits *nh2es- and *sh2el- (generalized accusative) here.
>
> Sergei

I guess you can derive it both ways, from *nh2es- or from *nh2s- depending
on whether you accept the possibility that PIE *CHC- > BSl *CaC- in the
first syllable or not. But the laryngeal has to be here in order to account
for the *a:/*a alternation in different IE lgs.

Mate