Re: [tied] Re: Lexicon of Proto-Indo-European morphological roots

On 2007-04-02 18:59, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:35:20 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
>
>> The *wérh1-je/o- --> *wérje/o- rule is Pinault's Law
>
> The problem is: was the laryngeal dropped, or did it fail to
> vocalize? Greek can show failure to vocalize, but
> Balto-Slavic often shows whether it was dropped or not.
> If what I said in Copenhagen last summer is correct, what
> we're dealing here is failure to vocalize: ...

How would you interpret Lith. krau~jas 'blood' < *kreuh2-jó-m (Skt.
kravyá- 'raw meat', OPr. krawjan 'blood')? It might be interesting to
have another look at the fairly rich material collected in Pinnault's
original paper:

Georges-Jean Pinnault. 1982. "A neglected phonetic law: the reduction of
the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllabke sbefore yod". In:
Anders Ahlqvist (ed.), _Papers from the 5th International Conference on
Historical Linguistics_, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 265-272.

Piotr