Re: [tied] ?VCC-

26-03-2004 20:45, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Wasn't the glottal stop (if that is what it was) real enough for us
> to reconstruct PIE *h1su- 'good', *h1sont- 'being'? I'm open to
> dissuasion in the latter case - the argument for *h1sont- rather
> than *sont- seems to lie on patterns and on the Greek participle
> eónt-. What demonstrates the *h1 in *h1senti 'they are'?

Hitt. asanzi (vs. 1sg. eszi). I'd add Gk. imperative istHi < *&1s-dHi,
with *&1 assimilated to the next vowel, as it sporadically is in Greek
(cf. odont- < *&1dont-).

Piotr