[tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> Here, I can furnish the examples.
>
> It is probably easiest to see with PIE initial *a-.
>
> Earliest PIE had a morpheme *ha (from Nostratic /Ha/

not /ha/), 'water',

> that had combined with other morphemes to form roots in PIE.

OK, if I understand correctly, your examples generalize as:
After an (initial?) *H, *a is not lenthened, but neither is it
converted to *A; it just remains *Ha.

Is *H2awi, 'bird' also a water word? (I hope you don't say it was in
your list, and I missed it.)

And how does *H2owis, 'sheep' arise?