Jens to Miguel:
>The alternation /e:/ : /e/ does not point to /i/ by any rules for which I
>know any evidence.
Miguel:
>I do.
Two against one. I don't see it either. Your rules are convoluted and
hard to follow/swallow here. They're unmotivated after a proper analysis
of IE itself. Simply put: unnecessary complexity. There's nothing wrong
or terribly abnormal about *ye:kWr. It is a vrddhied root plus the oft-used
heteroclitic suffix *-r. We also don't need to fantasize out of thin air
that *y- here comes from *l. The IE root is *ye:kWr, never **le:kWr.
So deal with reality for once.
= gLeN
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