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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mandicdavid" <davidmandic@...> wrote:
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> But would the laryngeal have triggered lengthening if it had been a
> part of the onset of the following syllable?
> Wouldn't the development of this word in that case look like this:
> trów-HeH2 > trów?a: > tráwa: > trová ?
The laryngeal has nothing to do with the lengthening.
We have a root *trawH- (or *s'law-), which is lengthened to *tra:wH-
(*s'la:w-) by a process known as vr.ddhi (in this case, late Balto-
Slavic vr.ddhi, as shown by Lithuanian s^love:, not *s^luove:).
The laryngeal, in my view, is significant only for the syllabification
of the lengthened form (*tra:w-HaH vs. *s'la:-waH), which subsequently
determines the development of the accentuation in Slavic (travá vs.
sláva).