Re: [tied] Balto-Slavic -RHj-?

On 05-01-04 19:01, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Apparently, in sequences *-RHj-, the laryngeal just
> disappears, at least if the *-j- belongs to the verbal
> suffix *-je/jo- (which then behaves as if it was
> *-ie-/*-io-, with vocalic onset). That seems a more elegant
> solution than assuming that *-je- is a secondary
> substitution of plain *-e- in all Baltic and Slavic forms.

*-R.Hj- > -Rj-, as proposed by Pinnault for all of IE (see also
*kreuh2-jo- > *krewjo-). Note the development of word-initial *Hj-
(without a prothetic vowel in Greek).

Piotr