Sanskrit /e/ (was: PIE voiceless aspirates)

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

>
> Patrick:
> > So far as I can see, there could be no _second_
> > palatalization because, in Old Indian, all *V had
> > become <a>, which could not palatalize.
>
> Since *woidos becomes /veda/ (the thing that you're
> currently lacking) this absolute assertion is
> obviously not correct.

That rather depends on the absolute accuracy of the 'human tape
recorders'. There is very respectable argument that *woydos became
/vayda/, with the monophthongisation coming after Panini.

Richard.