Re: [tied] Re: Ie. *laywos/leh2iwos (was: ka and k^a)

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:53:43 +0000, Sergejus Tarasovas
<s.tarasovas@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:56:48 +0000, Sergejus Tarasovas
>>> >But what about Hirt's law? Wouldn't Slavic a.p. c point to the
>> >absence of a laryngeal at least on the flanks of *i?
>>
>> Yes, it rules out *aiH. Cf. *daiHwé:r, Slav. dê"verI, Latv.
>> die~veris, with Hirt's law (see Illich-Svitych p. 154,
>> Rasmussen "On Hirt's law", 1).
>
>A quick (and superficial, I must admit) perusal of both Jens' article
>and the relevant pages of Imennaja... still hasn't made it clear to me
>whether the Slavic a.p. c rules out *ah2i, though (that was Piotr's
>point after all). If I may, it would be nice to hear from Jens himself.

*ah2i would produce a circumflex, at least that's what
happens in the Auslaut (Lith -ai, no Saussure's law).
Then again *lah2iwós (if that's a possible form at all)
would probably have given a long vowel in Greek (hard to
sure because of Osthoff's law, but I'd expect *la:(i)ós ~
*le:(i)ós like, say, o:ión).

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