Ie. *laywos/leh2iwos (was: ka and k^a)

On Sub, rujan 24, 2005 10:36 am, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

> Rob wrote:

>> Can you explain that counterargument in more detail?
>>
>> How realistic would a form *lexiwos be in IE?
>
> Less realistic than *laiwos, given the circumflex intonation, which
> indicates a laryngeal-less root. Derksen posits *lh2aiwo-. Brave boys,
> laryngealising to the last ;-).

Circumflex intonation where? The word itself is not attested in Baltic and
the Slavic circumflex is irrelevant since we would expect it there anyway
(Greek laiós - acute would disappeare via Meillet's Law in Slavic the word
being mobile). But in Lith. there is a verb iš-laivóti which, if reliable,
would point to the circumflex int. of the root and against *leh2iwos.

Mate