Re: [tied] Re: PIE Ablaut

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:

> The reconstruction *bhér-o-m&1no-s for Gk. pherómenos and Avestan
> bar&mno: /baramna-/ via Proto-Indo-Iranian *bháramïna-s (using
> double-dotted i for the vowel arising from schwa in Indo-Iranian) is
> regular under Brugmann's original formulation of the law if the
> interconsonantal laryngeal is realized phonetically as something
> like [h&], i.e. a modulation beginning as a fricative and ending as
> a vowel, perhaps a gradual lessening of the frictional noise in the
> course of the articulation. That apparently made the first part of
> the "schwa" consonantal enough to act as a second consonant causing
> [mh] to close the preceding syllable and prevent lengthening of the
> [o].

All this is of course independently supported by the Rigvedic scansion
of the first two syllables in words like <duhitar-> as heavy plus light,
implying pre-Indic *dughïtar- < *dHug[h&]ter- < *dHugh2ter-.

Piotr