From: Alwin K.
Message: 25938
Date: 2003-09-22
> That *is* a tricky one indeed. It is very hard toLubotsky wrote an article about it: La loi de Brugmann
> anything in the
> order of closed syllables here (*Hop-s- or
> *HopH-os). If opus/�pas-
> is taken at face value, then the PIE form,
> phonemically /H3�pos/,
> phonetically had a special o-like vowel in its first
> syllable. That
> is not in itself impossible, although I thought I
> had found a
> decisive example, which happens to speak against it:
>
> I do not know of other examples of the type of
> �pas-, but perhaps
> others do?