Re: [tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses

>The pronoun *ís, *ésyo gives Latin is, e:ius. Final -s is
>secondary, so the form reflects stressed *ésyo with loss of
>-s- and compensatory lengthening of the /e/. With stressed
>*-ósyo the result is -u:ius (*-ósyo > *-óhyo > *-ó:io >
>*-ú:iu + s), as in hu:ius, cu:ius.

Not quite right. The vowel was short, and the medial <-i-> was pronounced
double, as (nearly) always in Latin. So the forms are / ejjus, hujjus,
cujjus/. We have attestations from the grammarians, as well as
inscriptional evidence for this.

Pete