Re: [tied] tt/st/ss

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> For <pa:la> as well as <pa:lum ~ -s> 'stake, I
> propose *pag(^)-tlo- >
> *pakþlo > *pakslo- > *pa(g)zlo- > pa:lo-,

> I'm making no assumptions about the phonetic
> interpretation of *þ in the
> intermediate reconstruction above: it's just the
> same treatment as in
> the well-known "thorny" words, possibly with a
> [ts]-type affricate
> rather than a special fricative.

If you think this goes back to PIE, I have to disagree. There is
t>s between various C and l differing among branches. The most easily
seen is Greek Vxtl > Vxsl (x = h2):

*tlaxtlos > L tabula; G te:lía 'board'

*staxtlos > OPr stakle 'support'; G sté:le: 'block'