Re: [tied] The gap of *b in IE

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

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> Patrick:
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> There is no absence of *b in PIE; it is infrequent, and sometimes is
> transformed into *bh or *w, but it is present. *b is b in Sumerian;

*bh is

> p.
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*#b > *#p would explain *pibati.