On 2006-07-21 08:09, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
> There's a chance it might be, though it's not a common belief.
Cf., possibly, *lunk^- > Lith. lú:s^is, Slavic *rysI 'lynx' with a
hard-to-explain *r in the onset. Inherited *CunC is a rare combination,
since the normal PIE syllabification of //wn//, at least between
obstruents, was *[wn.] rather than *[un]. The latter appears regularly
when the *n reflects the nasal infix in a *CeuC- root(presumably, in
such cases *CunC derives from earlier *CuC-n- via metathesis). In
*lunk^- the occurrence of the "forbidden" combination must be due to
the initial liquid (*lwn.k^- would have violated a still higher-ranking
phonotactic prohibition); thus also in your 'bast' example (see OInd.
lun^c^ati 'peel, tear off') which means that PIE *(C)runC should also be
possible.
Piotr