Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

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> >> No, we can't because of the attested plural forms
> >> with zerograded *h1s-, not **s-. Note Hittite
> >> /asanzi/ "they are" < *h1sonti.
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> > Unless that's a prothetic a-.
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> Then I guess Greek /odous/ also has a prothetic
> vowel from an earlier **dont- (normally *h1dont-)?
> Not very likely.

*dont derives from *ed. In some Greek dialects it's even preserved as
edont. Prothetic vowels in Greek tend to be a bit unstable and
sometimes assimilate to the following vowel, perhaps as in the case
above. Greek, it seems, retains the full grade where other languages
have the zero grade.