From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 33576
Date: 2004-07-20
>Jens:What the hell is the relevance of this text to the question
>> What we can say about *pedós in this respect is that the /e/ is short
>> and followed by a single consonant plus a vowel. Within the limited
>> knowledge at our disposal that makes the first syllable open; otherwise
>> the distinction has no meaning that I can see.
>
>I don't think our knowledge is so limited.
>
> "Laryngeals and Vedic metre"
> Jost Gippert (Universität Frankfurt)
> http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/jg/pdf/jg1996k.pdf