From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 47852
Date: 2007-03-14
>According to Winter's rule: "Metathesis occured only when no vowelThe "fire"-word, I presume.
>preceded the laryngeal, when laryngeal did not stand in initial
>position..., and when the semivowel was at least originally followed
>by a consonant..."
>The best example is *peH2w- (theme I) and *pH2ew- (theme II) with
>zero-grade form *puH2- and *pH2u-.
>According to Winter, the regular sequence *wH (*yH) was metathesizedYou mean "According to Winter, the regular sequence *Hw
>to *wH (*yH0) (Lindeman ILTH, pp. 108-111).