Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> Well, we have *nék^-je/o- (Skt. nás'yati 'perish', the nil grade od the
> root attested in Celtic), *h2árh3-je/o- 'plough'... I'm sure there are
> others but I'm quoting off the top of my head and with no books to hand.
> I may be back with more examples.
Just one further example: *wérh1-je/o- 'say, speak, call', as in Gk.
eîro: and Hitt. werija-. It's interesting for three reasons:
(1) It's attested in Anatolian.
(2) It's certainly "ablautable".
(2) The loss of the laryngeal *wérh1-je/o- > *wérje/o- (see the Greek
form) is due to Pinault's Law and guarantees that the stem is old.
Secondary *-je- stems formed more recently (like Gk. emeo 'vomit' <
virtual *wem&1-je/o- replacing athematic *wemh1-) don't show this
effect. Furthermore, Pinault's Law would not have operated after a
syllabic rhotic; in other words, the full grade must also be old.
Piotr