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

--- 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.