Re: The phonetic value of PIE *h3 and the 'drink' root.

> >Give me a rule that explains the coming and going of -p- in IE,
> >not Sanskrit alone, and I'll take it under advisement.
>
> The causative suffix is in origin the verb *ey-e-ti (Hitt. iyami
> "ich mache", píjami "schicke hin", uijami "schicke her"). I don't
> know why Sanskrit chose the variant with preverb *p(e)- to make
> the causative of roots ending in a laryngeal (and a few others).

Krause-Thomas, 201
"Das Wort für 'machen' . . . zeigt in A einen merkwürdigen Wechsel der
Formen ya- und ypa-, wobei ypa- in den Formen mit idg. Themavokal o
steht. In A sonst normal nach Kl. III: Akt. ypam, yat, yas.; ypamäs,
*yac, ypeñc. Med. ypama:r, yata:r, yatär; ypamtär, *yacär, ypantär.
PPs. ypant; ypama:n; Ger. I yal; Inf. yatsi."

Metathesis py- > yp- ?


Torsten