[tied] Re: PIE 'brow'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "whetex_lewx" <whetex_lewx@...>
wrote:

> >
> > Sl. *brUvUka
> >
> Thanks, but I understand in my self that it's suffix of diminutive,
> but could you explain why u in brUv-, but not o?

*U (in a strong position) > o is regular for Russian (in the Russian
philological tradition it's called "projasnenije reducirovannyx
(jerov)"). Or did you mean something else?

Sergei