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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
> > Has the "ruki"-rule worked through laryngeals in (Balto-)Slavic?
> >In
> > other words, would *s in *{r,u,k,i}Hs have yielded (B)Sl. *s.
> > (retracted s) or plain *s? Or "it depends"?..
>
> Of the top of my head there's *muHs > OCS mys6 with the RUKI
working...
What if the laryngeal itself could trigger the RUKI? For instance,
*h2 (most likely uvular [X]) differed from *k ([q]) only by being
[+continuant], and whatever feature of *k triggered the RUKI, it
definitely wasn't the one of being [-continuant]. Cf. Slavic
*maxati 'wave' (probably -- in view of Lith. mosúoti) < *meh2s-.
Sergei