Re: [tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal s

>The lengthening of the root vowel in the s-aorist suggests to me that the
>original shape was *deyk^s > *de:yk^s, with length due to normal
>"Szemerényi lengthening", as in the nom.sg..

Isn't Szemerényi lengthening due to loss of the following -s? But here it
survives.

Peter