Re: [tied] pibeti

On 04-10-15 04:04, etherman23 wrote:

> Is this something that happened in PIE or independently in the
> daughter languages? Since the laryngeals develop differently in the
> daughter languages I would assume the restoration of *e occured post-
> break up. But if that's the case then is it reasonable that such
> analogical effects took place in all the languages where the word is
> attested?

I would say, with due caution, that the restoration (or retention) of
non-coloured *-e- as the thematic vowel, is a common feature of (at
least) all the non-Anatolian branches, and is therefore a pre-breakup
phenomenon. There's no contradiction between that and the divergent
development of the laryngeals in the daughter languages. Thematic *-e-
just remained uncoloured, whatever happened to any adjacent laryngeals
(the colouring process itself may well have been over by that time).

Piotr