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

> >
> >Would your new rule be able to rescue Sanskrit 'ambu-' "water"

for

> >the family of *Hap- "water" (< PIE *xamb- ?). Cf Gr.

omphax "ripe

> >grape"
>
> No, the a- is explained well enough by *h2-[*],

Only if you assume *h2e-; if /a/ is preserved, rather than produced
by h2 there's nothing wrong in *h2aN-.

>and my rule
> does not concern itself with labial stops, nor does it offer
> carte blanche to mix up the reflexes of *b, *bh and *p.

I know I'd have to obtain that carte blache elsewhere, namely by
assuming the root is loaned.


Torsten