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

>
> The full grade of the root is unremarkable if the word
> contains etymological */a/, since the zero grade of */a/ is
> */a/, as in *nas- obl. *nas-; *sal- obl. *sal-, etc. Since
> these are acrostatic formations, we would expect Ablaut
> *oN/*eN (*noNs-, obl. *neNs-), and apparently the reflexes
> of *oN and *eN merged, Old-Polish-style, as **/aN/ (> */a/).
>

If you proposed instead *eN -> *aN -> *a, *oN -> *o, you could
account for a/o ablaut.


Torsten