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

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:41:13 +0200 (CEST), Mate Kapović
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>On Ned, rujan 25, 2005 12:20 am, Miguel Carrasquer reče:
>> *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).
>
>*leh2iwós should behave like *h2o:wyóm? Why?

Becuase they have nearly identical structure (post-laryngeal
*la:iwós, *o:uyóm).

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