Re: Brugmann's Law

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

>
> On 2008-01-20 10:50, Mate Kapoviæ wrote:
>
> > Why lab- from *lh1b- in Latin? It should be la:b-...
>
> This, according to Schrijver, is how _initial_ (as opposed to _medial_)
> *R.HC- was resolved in Latin. For a similar example, cf. *l.h1d-to- >
> lassus (Gmc. *le:t-).

It's likely that initial * ( lax- > lx,- ) was retained in PIE but
elsewhere * ( V-CC, > VC-C, then remaining lx, > l,x / nx, > n,x / wn,

> w,n > un ) and all similar cases of more then less sonorant switched

+syllabic to the more sonorant.

In other words, it's almost impossible that many groups would have
special rules for all the word-initial combinations found there
instead of there being a common retention of a PIE disparity.