From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 54477
Date: 2008-03-02
> >Because *bHh- being impossible to be pronounced ->and because, inTestis Unus Testis Nullus
> >this particular case, we have also a y/w/r/l/m/n 'around' the
> >metathesis took place immediately : *bHih-.
> >
> >So it's an impossible syllabification
>
> There still are a couple of forms with /i/ < *h2i instead of
> /i:/ < *ih2. Baltic bijóti ~ bijât and Avestan biBiuua:h-
> can be explained otherwise (*bhih2-ah2-, syllabified as
> *bhi-h2ah2-, and defective spelling for biBi:uua:h- = Skt.
> bibhi:va:n-), but Greek pithe:kos "monkey", if it belongs
> here, looks like a genuine case of *bhh2idh- (which probably
> was pronounced /bHidH/, with assimilation of /x/ into the
> aspiration of /bh/).
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...