Re: [tied] xW>v>w (was: -tlo- vs -tro-)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-07-09 05:39, stlatos wrote:
> >>> Why Skt rayis not *ra-is > *re:s?

> The post-laryngeal hiatus left the word disyllabic. Cf. *nah2-u-s >
> nau-s. (still scanned as disyllabic in the RV).

I rather think the -y- is analogical on the weak cases: At one time,
nom. *ra-is, gen. *ra:yas was levelled to rayis, ra:yas so that both
alternants had -y- between the two vowels.

Jens