Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

On Pet, svibanj 26, 2006 9:58 am, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

> On 2006-05-26 08:24, Mate Kapović wrote:
>> What about Sanskrit -i(:)r-/-u(:)r- developments, which were connected
>> with PIE labiovelars (-u(:)r- comes supposedly not only after the
>> labials
>> but after PIE labiovelars as well)?
>
> This is controversial. The /i/ development may also occur after
> labiovelars, as in Skt. giri- 'mountain'. In my opinion the outcome
> after k, g, gH (of whatever origin) was variable and may have depended
> on other factors as well, e.g. the influence of vowel of the next
> syllable (cf. <gurú-> 'heavy'). I see no ground for believing that
> reflexes of *k and *kW are systematically distinguished in this way.

How would you then explain for instance IE *gWlh1tós (Greek ble:tós) > Skr
ud-gu:rn.ás "risen"? The influence of ud-?

Mate