Re: [tied] Timing of ablaut

>To accept such items as ávi-s, ápas- and ánas- as evidence you
>*must* assume they have an open first syllable. That is correct for
>ávi-, wrong for ánas-, and unsettled for ápas-.

Quite right, but you make it sound as if this were a problem.
If they have a closed first syllable, then they are simply irrelevant, not a
contradiction.

Peter