Re: Olsen's Law [was: PIE Ploughs]

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 29991
Date: 2004-01-25

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > According to Jens, the root *poh3- is actually *poh3i- (with
possible
> > contextual variants *poh3-, *poih3-, *pih3-, *ph3i-),
>
> There seem to be a number of roots with final laryngeal that also
show forms
> with -i- (not counting the obvious Sanskrit i < vocalic H). They
appear in
> Pokorny with -(i) at the end. Piotr has suggested a reduction
of an
> original diphthong, but that explains the variation -euH/-eH and -
eiH/-eH,
> not the sequence -Hi. Besides, it is an i that pops up so
unexpectedly in
> these words, not u.
> I don't know of any discussion of this. Any ideas?

THere was some discussion at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/13969 - I don't know
if this helps.

Richard.