Re: [tied] PIE Reconstruction

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> And (e) the lengthening effect in sandhi, e.g.
>
> *n.-h1s-(e)nt- > RV á:sat- 'non-existent'. Here, the lengthening
> betrays the presence of a laryngeal, and the uncoloured *e reflected
> as such in most IE branches shows the laryngeal to be *h1.

Couldn't that be from analogy with _as-_ 'be'? Or do you think there
was still a phonetic schwa adjacent to the laryngeal?

- Rob