From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 28128 Date: 2003-12-08
08-12-03 09:32, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> Is that raising of /e/ before N(C) or what Beekes calls "*e > i, condition
> unknown" (as in nip, vit)?
Perhaps neither. There was no rasing in *penkWe. I suppose an early
nasalised *e~ (before *s) was raised when there was still an oral vowel
plus a nasal before stops and affricates. One would need more
examples to reconstruct the details.