Re: *o:w(a:), egg(s)

On 2008-01-09 00:38, Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> I am therefore proposing that in this word, the exception
>> to the rule, the initial phone was a vowel rather than a
>> consonant, here a laryngeal (like the, IMHO, mythical *H3).
>
> *h2, actually, if this is indeed a derivative of *h2ewi-
> 'bird'.

But *h2o:wj-o- is a bit unlikely (why the long *o:?), so the word may be
something like *o-h2wj-o- instead (with Rasmussen's O-fix?).

Piotr